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Re: Single quote character not handled well in associative array index


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Single quote character not handled well in associative array index
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:50:25 -0400
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On 8/29/16 5:57 PM, Jarno Suni wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> Using associative array variable that has a single quote in index does
> not work withing (( )) without a trick.

Yes, this is a problem resulting from the subscript being scanned twice
(once to perform variable expansion before the expression evaluator is
called, and once during the expression evaluation to find the end of the
subscript).  I'll look at it after bash-4.4 is released.

Chet


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