Re: Any chance of multi-dimensional arrays?

[Steven W. Orr]

On 11/25/12 14:54, quoth Bob Proulx:
> Rene Herman wrote:
> > All I want additionally is multi-dimensional arrays...
>
> There are various naming conventions and schemes to simulate
> multi-dimensional arrays using single dimension arrays.  Since you
> want to continue with the shell and the shell has not (yet) provided
> multi-dimensional arrays then the only option for you is to simulate
> them.  That isn't too difficult and if you search the web there are
> many different implementations with the biggest difference being
> whether ordering matters or not.
>
> Bob

Good answer. One suggestion that is used in awk is to use the associative 
array functionality by making an index that is a list of integers that are 
separated by commas. Here's a quick example off the top of my shiny head:

declare -A mdlist       # Multi Dimensional list

i1=44
i2=22
mdlist["$i1,$i2"]=Hello

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