Re: Passing Information To A Function

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, SoloCDM wrote:

> Can an array be passed to a function?  If there is a better, I'm
> listening!

Two methods:

        xxx() {
            xxx_var=( `eval echo \\${$1[@]}` )
            echo ${xxx_var[@]}
        }

        xxy() {
            xxx_var=( "$@" )
            echo ${xxx_var[@]}
        }

        qq=( q w e r t y u i o p )

        xxx qq
        xxy ${qq[@]}

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