Re: Feature Request: scanf-like parsing

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/25/21 10:17 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> I agree that it might be more useful if it
> expanded to multiple words in contexts like
>
> copy=( "${assoc[@]@K}" )

I forgot to mention that since the keys and values are both quoted so they
can be reused, you can copy an associative array using a key-value
assignment like

declare -A copy
eval copy=( "${assoc[@]@K}" )

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