Re: question on retrieving map(-A) value w/indirect name

[L A Walsh]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/16/18 8:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>   
> > I'm a bit confused ...
> > If I have assoc-array:
> >
> >  declare -A foo=([one]=11 [two]=22)
> >
> > and am passing name in another var, like "fee"
> >
> >  fee=foo
> >
> > I tried echoing the val:
> >
> >  echo ${!fee[one]}
> >
> > but got nothing -- tried a few other syntaxes.
> >     
>
> This has come up a number of times. Here's a message from 2002 explaining
> the details:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-08/msg00119.html
>   
I see....but that begs the question, how do you access an array's
members using a var holding the array's name?

I wanted to be able to do something like have a set of
values in an assoc. map, and pass the name to a generic
processing routine with the map name as a param, like:



sub processSrvState() {
   my stat=${1:?}
   if [[ ${!stat[cur_up]} == ${!stat[max_up]} &&
     ${!stat[cur_down]} == ${!stat[max_down]} ]]; then
     ...
   fi

but it seems less than straight-forward.  Is this possible?

I can likely think of ways around it, but none are very str8-forward
or attractive....(sigh)...
Tnx & tnx for the pointer...