you can maybe implent dynamical runtime code decisons like runtime code for splitting definement
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 17:36 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 12/17/20 10:13 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > On 12/17/20 9:29 AM, Léa Gris wrote: > >> Here is a Bash model of how, associative array support could be added > to > >> mapfile, replacing the need for interpreted while-loop read and logic > by > >> a much more efficient improved mapfile built-in: > > > > Thanks for the proposal. I'll consider it for a future version. > > One problem I see with it is that it assumes the introduction of word > splitting into mapfile, with the burden on the user to ensure that there > are exactly two resultant fields. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ > >