On 4/16/15 11:43 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> I thought Bash always first splits the identifier from the subscript,
> then checks which attributes the variable has set. If it has the
> associative array attribute plus a subscript then the subscript is
> only processed for expansions and the resulting string is used as the
> key. If the associative array attribute is not set then the subscript
> is processed for expansions and the resulting string is passed on to
> arithmetic evaluation.
>
> Am I following the discussion correctly? i.e. if you have
> `a[b[text]]`, the treatment of `text` is entirely determined by b's
> attributes.
Yes, that's correct. In the case I'm talking about, we're only concerned
with indexed arrays and the consequent arithmetic evaluation.
Chet
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