On 2/4/14, 5:17 PM, phil colbourn wrote: > Bash Version: 4.2 > Patch Level: 45 > Release Status: release > > Description: > declare -ia not enforced if variable is initiated using =
Correct; bash applies the integer attribute after the variable assignment. It has been this way since arrays were introduced (well, at least as far back as bash-3.2; that's when I stopped looking). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/