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Re: Indices of array variables are sometimes considered unset (or just display an error).

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  Re: Indices of array variables are sometimes considered unset (or just display an error). Grisha Levit <grishalevit@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 01:03 -0500

#14769 — Re: Indices of array variables are sometimes considered unset (or just display an error).

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:38 PM Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Sorry, I'm having a hard time following this email thread.

I *think* the point is that OP expected that:

(a) ${!var[@]-foo} expands to the indexes of var if ${var[@]} if set, else
    to `foo'

whereas the behavior they observed is:

(b) ${!var[@]-foo} expands to the value of the variable whose name is
stored
    in ${var[@]} or to `foo' if that variable is unset

Their expectation seems reasonable since "the variable whose name is stored
in ${var[@]}" is kind of a weird thing.

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