The following is my test scripts and their output.
They are very similar, and I do not think they should result in
different output.
The output I expected from all of them is:
v1
v2
But as you can see, only 1 in the following 4 cases does it meet my
expectation. In the other 3 cases, the nameref attribute of the variable
'ref' is lost unexpectedly.
=== script ===
#!/bin/bash
declare -a arr=('dict[k1]' 'dict[k2]')
declare -A dict='([k1]=v1 [k2]=v2)'
func() {
local -i i
for ((i=0; i<${#arr[@]}; ++i)); do
local -n ref
ref=${arr[i]}
echo $ref
done
}
func
--- output ---
v1
v2
=== script ===
#!/bin/bash
declare -a arr=('dict[k1]' 'dict[k2]')
declare -A dict='([k1]=v1 [k2]=v2)'
func() {
local -i i
local -n ref
for ((i=0; i<${#arr[@]}; ++i)); do
ref=${arr[i]}
echo $ref
done
}
func
--- output ---
v1
dict[k2]
=== script ===
#!/bin/bash
declare -a arr=('dict[k1]' 'dict[k2]')
declare -A dict='([k1]=v1 [k2]=v2)'
declare -i i
for ((i=0; i<${#arr[@]}; ++i)); do
declare -n ref
ref=${arr[i]}
echo $ref
done
--- output ---
v1
dict[k2]
=== script ===
#!/bin/bash
declare -a arr=('dict[k1]' 'dict[k2]')
declare -A dict='([k1]=v1 [k2]=v2)'
declare -i i
declare -n ref
for ((i=0; i<${#arr[@]}; ++i)); do
ref=${arr[i]}
echo $ref
done
--- output ---
v1
dict[k2]
