Re: certain strings both legal and illegal as associative array keys

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/9/15 9:18 PM, vampyrebat@gmail.com wrote:

> This implies to me that escaping the quotes in the unset line would cause the 
> array code to see the same thing in both cases.  That is,
> 
> unset foo[\"a\'b\"]
> 
> would mean that the pre-array code word expansions would result in foo["a'b"] 
> being passed to the array code, the same as what that code sees in the 
> assignment case.
> 
> However, the net result of this modification is to change the script error 
> message from "not a valid identifier" to "bad array subscript".

Yes, that's a problem.  I will take a look at it and fix it for the next
release.

Chet
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