i found it working if i $key in (( , not just '[key]' i dunno i look for cmds to make em work ..
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 6:15 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 12/29/24 4:34 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > > > I'm aware of the pitfalls described therein, and more. I don't > > think anyone thinks multiple evaluation in indexes is good per se, > > but many find the side effects of the attempted cures worse than > > the disease (e.g., https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf62). > > In its zeal to demonstrate how bad bash is, that little code snippet > ignores the obvious solution: > > declare -A hash > key=\'\] > hash[$key]=17 > (( hash[key]++ )) > declare -p hash > > Since arithmetic evaluation performs its own expansion of identifiers. > assoc_expand_once also works. But that wasn't really the point, was it? > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
