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Re: Gnu Bash Manual - Getting the Array Size
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Gnu Bash Manual - Getting the Array Size |
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Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:29:09 -0500 |
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On 12/16/21 1:33 PM, fatiparty--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again
SHell wrote:
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> Have been reading the Gnu Bash Manual "6.7 Arrays" and there is no mention of
> ${#name[*]} to get the array size.
"${#NAME[SUBSCRIPT]}' expands to the length of
'${NAME[SUBSCRIPT]}'. If SUBSCRIPT is '@' or '*', the expansion is the
number of elements in the array."
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/