On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 21:00:22 -0700 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jun 3, 11:38pm, Bart Schaefer wrote: > } > } All you need is ${(AA)1=} which tries to interpret the > } positional parameter $1 as a hash table. > > Any obvious problems with the following? That looks a definite improvement. pws