On 22:49 Thu 25 Oct     , Roy Marples wrote:
> 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'"

I was hoping for some sort of meaningfully named separate variables, not 
an even messier fake array.

Thanks,
Donnie
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