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Re: 4.4 change in behavior from 4.3: how to catch unset when using ${#le


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: 4.4 change in behavior from 4.3: how to catch unset when using ${#length}
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:59:54 -0400
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On 10/24/16 7:32 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:

>    I don't understand the ambiguity.  If param= "#obj[@]", then it
> is clear to me that the user wants the length of an array named "obj".

Stop there.  In something like ${#obj[@]}, `param' is `obj[@]'.  The
`${#param}' is a clearly-defined word expansion, separate from the
`[:]-' forms:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_02

That's what we're talking about here.

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