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Re: Unexpected result of array assignment

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Unexpected result of array assignment
Date 2019-07-18 08:12 -0400
Message-ID <mailman.1639.1563451958.2688.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <nycvar.YAK.7.76.1907180212120.95422@nzl.bcra-fbhepr.pb.hx> <af7d9768-fe41-2c93-ee05-58932a390b80@t-online.de> <20190718121206.GV2450@eeg.ccf.org>

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:58:52AM +0200, Henning wrote:
> On 18/07/2019 03:16, Darren 'Tadgy' Austin wrote:
> 
> >          foo=(["key"]="${foo["key"]} value2")
> 
> using eval shoud also succeed, even for older bash:
> 
> 	eval 'foo=(["key"]="'"${foo["key"]}"' value2")'

If you just want to work around the bug, why not do it in the simplest
way possible?

foo["key"]+=" value2"

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Re: Unexpected result of array assignment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-18 08:12 -0400

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