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Re: ${assoc[key]+set} no longer works.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: ${assoc[key]+set} no longer works. |
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Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:19:31 -0400 |
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On 3/18/14 5:36 AM, geir.hauge@gmail.com wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> With an associative array, assoc, ${assoc[key]+set} expands to the
> empty string if the associated value is the empty string.
Thanks for the report. This was a consequence of a change made back in
2011 to expand the value portion of the assignment statement a slightly
different way. I've attached a patch to fix it.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
compound-array-empty-value.patch
Description: Source code patch