Re: Bug in array populating does not respect quotes

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, David Martin wrote:

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDI$
> uname output: Linux bristol 2.6.31 #10 SMP Thu Sep 10 17:59:29 CEST
> 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33 (debian bash-4.0-7)
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         When populating an array from a string in a variable does not
> handle quotes.
> 
> Repeat-By:
> 
> ~$ declare -a samplearray
> ~$ samplearray=( x y 'z k')
> ~$ echo ${samplearray[2]}
> z k
> ~$ samplestring="x y 'z k'"
> ~$ samplearray=( $samplestring )

eval "samplearray=( $samplestring )"

> ~$ echo ${samplearray[2]}
> 'z

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