On 6/17/23 7:58 AM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:


On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 20:40 alex xmb ratchev <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:



    On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 15:06 Chet Ramey <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        On 6/14/23 5:18 PM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:

         >     [[ -v a["$subscript"] ]]


a small question about that .. do the quotes matter ?

For `[[', no. For `[', yes, since the subscript undergoes a round of word
expansion, including word splitting, before `[' is invoked.

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