Re: New array_expand_once option

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/17/23 7:58 AM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 20:40 alex xmb ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com 
> <mailto:fxmbsw7@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 15:06 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu
>     <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
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>         On 6/14/23 5:18 PM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:
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>          >     [[ -v a["$subscript"] ]]
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> a small question about that .. do the quotes matter ?

For `[[', no. For `[', yes, since the subscript undergoes a round of word
expansion, including word splitting, before `[' is invoked.

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