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From: Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:40:41
Message-Id: ea440b1d0710250937m98d1247u136cb46a3053332d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) by Roy Marples
1 Form #1 looks clearer than #3, but still not so clear :)
2
3 On 10/25/07, Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:02 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
6 > > These sh ``arrays'' are really just strings, right? Did you implement
7 > > functions to take them apart? Can the same function handle forms 1 and 3?
8 >
9 > I don't think we could use both.
10 > Here's a code snippet of actually using them
11 >
12 > # How baselayout-2 presently handles arrays
13 > eval "$(_get_array array)"
14 > for x in "$@"; do
15 > echo "$x"
16 > done
17 >
18 > # How baselayout-2 may handle arrays based on this discussion
19 > IFS="
20 > "
21 > for x in $(_get_array array); do
22 > unset IFS
23 > echo "$x"
24 > done
25 >
26 > Assume that the _get_array function correctly maps the bash array to the
27 > posix shell one in both cases.
28 >
29 > Thanks
30 >
31 > Roy
32 >
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