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

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/19/14, 5:42 PM, Geir Hauge wrote:

>     > 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.

That's not a bug.  Referencing any array without a subscript is equivalent
to referencing subscript 0.  In the case of an associative array, that's
${assoc["0"]}.

Chet

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