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Re: certain strings both legal and illegal as associative array keys
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: certain strings both legal and illegal as associative array keys |
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Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:12:06 -0400 |
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On 3/9/15 9:18 PM, vampyrebat@gmail.com wrote:
> This implies to me that escaping the quotes in the unset line would cause the
> array code to see the same thing in both cases. That is,
>
> unset foo[\"a\'b\"]
>
> would mean that the pre-array code word expansions would result in foo["a'b"]
> being passed to the array code, the same as what that code sees in the
> assignment case.
>
> However, the net result of this modification is to change the script error
> message from "not a valid identifier" to "bad array subscript".
Yes, that's a problem. I will take a look at it and fix it for the next
release.
Chet
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