Thanks Chris, this was very helpful. I come from an oracle background and
I'm trying to transfer some of that into bash...
Duane
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <c...@freeshell.org>wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, OnTheEdge wrote:
>
>
>> All, I'm trying to figure out how to loop through an array of records (if
>> possible) and reference fields in that record, but I've only been able to
>> reference the entire array (array[0]) or when assigned with parens, there
>> is
>> no concept of a row...
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> array1="187431346 0323 mirrored 11866
>> 187431346 0324 mirrored 11866
>> 187431346 0325 mirrored 11866
>> 187431346 0326 mirrored 11866"
>>
>
> That is not an array; it is a scalar variable.
>
> To assign it to an array:
>
> array1=( "187431346 0323 mirrored 11866"
> "187431346 0324 mirrored 11866"
> "187431346 0325 mirrored 11866"
> "187431346 0326 mirrored 11866"
> )
>
> element_count1=${#array1[*]}
>> echo $element_count1
>>
>> number_of_elements=${#arra...@]}
>>
>> echo '- ARRAY-1--------------------------------'
>>
>> for REC in "${array1[*]}"
>> do
>> echo "Field 1: ${REC[0]} Field 2: ${REC[1]}"
>> done
>>
>> I would like to see something like this:
>> Field 1: 187431346 Field 2: 0323
>> Field 1: 187431346 Field 2: 0324
>> Field 1: 187431346 Field 2: 0325
>> Field 1: 187431346 Field 2: 0326
>>
>
> set -f ## Prevent pathname expansion, (not necessary in this example)
> for REC in "${arra...@]}"
> do
> set -- $REC
> printf "Field 1: %s Field 2: %s\n" "$1" "$2"
> done
>
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