On Nov 25, 2012 1:37 AM, "Rene Herman" <rene.her...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good day. > > I know that bash arrays are 1 dimensional -- but are there any plans for providing multi-dimensional arrays? > > I'm currently writing a larger bash script to manage my (ogg vorbis) music collection, including maintaining tags. Vorbis files can and (mine) often will contain repeated tags such as, say, "artist=David Crosby" and "artist=Graham Nash" and so on and as such, my "artist" variable is an array. > > However, the same things holds for any tag and I'm currently managing separate title, artist, genre, date, album, tracknumber, disc and discnumber arrays with fairly ugly "manual loops", whereas I would much prefer to call them "tag[i]" instead and loop over them with actual for loops. Given that tag[i] is itself an array, I can't do that though. > > When you google for this issue, you find various contrived emulations of multi-dimensional arrays through function-accessors and such, but that's not really what I want to do. Thought I'd see if a suggestion that multi-dimensional arrays would really be much welcome would be welcome here... > > The things I'm trying to do with this script seem to most naturally belong to the realm of scripts and as such, I'm reluctant to switch to a different language. And, in fact, I'm sort of satisfied how this is now working. It's just that the code would much improve from multi-dimensional array support. > > Kind regards, > Rene >
Why don't you write it in Python? It will be much easier. You can use advanced data structures and can even store your data in a database such as MySQL. Execution will be much faster, too.
