Re: Declaring arrays with empty string in one line is bugged

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Declaring arrays with empty string in one line is bugged
Date	2020-08-05 09:32 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 8/4/20 1:31 PM, andy_bash wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.1
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: alpha
> 
> Description:
>         Declaring an array and setting it with empty strings ("") in one
> line is bugged in bash 5.1 alpha. This has worked in bash 3.2-5.0 without
> issue.

Thanks for the report. Bash-5.1-alpha was a little aggressive about
skipping over empty strings.

Chet

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