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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: associative array questions
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 14:37:34 -0800
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On 2022-12-11 13:41, Bart Schaefer wrote:


Parsing has to happen first, otherwise it's not possible to find what
to substitute ...

I should say that I thought substitution happened before assignment. But if I could watch how the wheels actually spin no doubt some of mynaive assumptions would vanish.


   typeset -g -- "${aarray}[second]"='tea for two'

I had no idea typeset could be used like that! It has the intuitivedirectness that I was hunting for.

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