Yes, using arrays makes perfect sense in the particular example I had given. But that example was only for the sake of expressing the problem.
In the actual place I was stuck, there wasn't any arrity on numeric index. The iterator isnt numeric there, it is an array of strings. So I can't have them as STRING[n] where n is a number. Although I can have them as STRING[str] where str is a string. But this is illegal in bash I suppose. Regards, irc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 11 November, 2002 19:01 Subject: Re: Bash trivia question On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:41:13PM +0530, irc wrote: > However, I couldn't figure out what could have been the problem in having it > this way ${STRING_${i}}, that is recursively handle ${${${...}}} Is there some reason you aren't using bash array variables? Tim. */