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  Associative array entries order differs from declaration Léa Gris <lea.gris@noiraude.net> - 2019-08-15 17:26 +0200

#15322 — Associative array entries order differs from declaration

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While dealing with getting keys of arrays, I found out that associative 
array keys where not registered in the same order as declared:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Declare and populate an associative array a
unset a
declare -A a=(
   ["one"]="first"
   ["two"]="second"
   ["three"]="third"
   ["four"]="last")
)
typeset -p a # show actual declaration order that differs from real one
# Show how the chaotic order affect iteration of the array
for v in "${a[@]}"; do
   echo "$v"
done

Output:
declare -A a=([two]="second" [three]="third" [four]="last" [one]="first"
second
third
last
first


This behavior looks just wrong and it is just same if you build the 
array incrementally:

unset a; declare -A a; a=(["one"]="first"); a+=(["two"]="second"); 
a+=(["three"]="third"); a+=(["four"]="last"); typeset -p a

Is there a way to control the order of entries in an associative array?

What rules applies to the order of entries?

-- 
Léa Gris

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