On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:31 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Is there any way we could avoid these altogether, and instead use > separate variables for each array element?
Well, we could prefix with numbers array="1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8; \* 'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4 -I 'option; $FOO with spaces'" Would become 0_config_eth0="1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8;" 1_config_eth0="\*" 2_config_eth0="'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4" 3_config_eth0="-I 'option; $FOO with spaces'" Can't suffix as we use $IFACE and $SSID and sometimes hardware addresses there. We don't have to have 0_, but we would need the other numbers. Advantage - no messy holding an array in a string Disadvantage - you have a big array and need to punt something in the middle :) OK, you could put a "value" in there but each array loop would have to know about this magical value. Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
