On 12/11/20 9:45 AM, Léa Gris wrote:
Le 11/12/2020 à 14:28, Oğuz écrivait :
Nah, this doesn't work either. Would be really useful if it did though.
$ declare -a foo=(1 2 )
$ declare -A assoc=("${foo[@]}" 3)
$ declare -p assoc
declare -A assoc=(["\"\${foo[@]}\""]="3" )
What would have been so useful is expanding mapfile to associative arrays:
This is an interesting idea for a future bash version.
key${IFS}value
declare -A assoc
IFS='= ' mapfile -t assoc <<INFILE
key1 = value1
key2=value2 with spaces
INFILE
And some dream of mapping JSON object members to associative arrays:
mapfile -j assoc <<JSON
{
"key1": "value1",
"key2": 42,
"key3": {
"otherkey": "othervalue"
}
}
JSON
But I'm not really interested in writing a JSON parser and integrating it
into mapfile. Maybe someone would be interested in writing a loadable
builtin, along the lines of the `csv' loadable builtin in bash-5.1.
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