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Re: Why do associative arrays have a space before the closing )?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Why do associative arrays have a space before the closing )? |
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Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:07:44 -0400 |
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On 9/5/14, 5:30 PM, lolilolicon wrote:
> In the `declare -p` output, I mean:
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> % bash -c 'declare -A x; x=([foo]=bar [x]=y); declare -p x;'
> declare -A x='([foo]="bar" [x]="y" )'
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> Does it serve any purpose? Just curious.
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It's an artifact of how the code is written. There's no special
meaning.
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