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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:33:32
Message-Id: 1193398245.4312.24.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) by Roy Marples
1 On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:18 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > # How baselayout-2 may handle arrays based on this discussion
3 > IFS="
4 > "
5 > for x in $(_get_array array); do
6 > unset IFS
7 > echo "$x"
8 > done
9
10 Also, if we didn't need to actually set any variables outside the loop
11 we could also then write this
12
13 _get_array array | while read x; do
14 echo "$x"
15 done
16
17 Thanks
18
19 Roy
20
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