Re: Mapfile callback access to current line

[DennisW]

On May 17, 4:42 pm, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 4/15/10 11:56 PM, DennisW wrote:
>
> > Mapfile would be that much more powerful if the callback function had
> > access to the current line. Is there any chance this might be added in
> > the future?
>
> Sure, there's a chance.  What would be the most useful form?  A shell
> variable that lives for the duration of the execution of the callback
> function?
>
> Chet
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> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Yes. The proposed variable's value should be modifiable and the
modified value would be the one that is stored in the array specified
in the mapfile command (by default: ARRAY).

foo () { MAP_LINE=${MAP_LINE%bar*}; }
mapfile -C foo -c 1 -t filedata < file

Of course, this can be done in a while loop instead.