Re: uninvited members of associative array

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2022-12-15 16:05, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> How are you creating and populating "main"? Can you provide a test
> case that the rest of us can actually use?

There's always the chance it doesn't even come to that, some artifact in 
the way the array prints or something.   But if you need to see an 
initialization:


# nlist(): Initialize 'main' array.  10 elements: 
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main[window]="main"
main[list]='List'
main[lastE]="$#List"
main[hight]=$(( mainWH - 2 ))
main[width]=$(( mainWW - 2 ))
main[bottomE]="$main[hight]"
main[topE]=1
main[currentE]=1
main[offset]=0
main[active]=1

... all values assign properly, so where do the uninvited keywords come 
from?  As Bart explained, the order of the printout has no regularity, 
so there's no pattern to look for.