Thank you for all and sorry for the noise, you were right.
David.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
<ch...@cfajohnson.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, David Martin wrote:
>
>> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
>> Machine: x86_64
>> OS: linux-gnu
>> Compiler: gcc
>> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
>> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
>> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDI$
>> uname output: Linux bristol 2.6.31 #10 SMP Thu Sep 10 17:59:29 CEST
>> 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> Bash Version: 4.0
>> Patch Level: 33 (debian bash-4.0-7)
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>> When populating an array from a string in a variable does not
>> handle quotes.
>>
>> Repeat-By:
>>
>> ~$ declare -a samplearray
>> ~$ samplearray=( x y 'z k')
>> ~$ echo ${samplearray[2]}
>> z k
>> ~$ samplestring="x y 'z k'"
>> ~$ samplearray=( $samplestring )
>
> eval "samplearray=( $samplestring )"
>
>> ~$ echo ${samplearray[2]}
>> 'z
>
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> Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com>
> ===================================================================
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> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
>
