Re: UUID as Array Keys strangely not possible

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/22/19 3:32 PM, Robert White wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> The following cannot work because, for some reason, the array subscript
> parser insists on doing math on array indices even when the array is
> associative instead of numeric
> 
> typeset -A UUID_TABLE
> ...
> UUID_TABLE+=( [${SOME_UUID}]=${SOME_VALUE} )
> ...
> some_command ${UUID_TABLE[${SOME_UUID}]}
> 
> The parser and evaluator insist on doing math on ${SOME_UUID} no matter how
> its quoted or whatever. This seems extremely wrong.

Do you have some sample UUID data to test this with?

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