Re: ${assoc[key]+set} no longer works.

[Geir Hauge]

2014-03-18 16:19 GMT+01:00 Chet Ramey <address@hidden>:

> On 3/18/14 5:36 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Bash Version: 4.3
> > Patch Level: 0
> > Release Status: release
> >
> > Description:
> >     With an associative array, assoc, ${assoc[key]+set} expands to the
> >     empty string if the associated value is the empty string.
>
> Thanks for the report.  This was a consequence of a change made back in
> 2011 to expand the value portion of the assignment statement a slightly
> different way.  I've attached a patch to fix it.


Thanks. That patch also makes  [[ -v assoc[x] ]]  return 0. However,
[[ -v assoc ]] returns 1 (which it also does before the patch). Sounds
related to this bug.

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Geir Hauge