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[ale] Bash vs Perl
- Subject: [ale] Bash vs Perl
- From: slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:54:15 -0400
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 20:00:46 -0400
Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Parsing text in bash is much harder than in Perl. Associative arrays
> in bash really help.
I didn't know bash had associative arrays. Thanks!
=============================
#!/bin/bash
declare -A person
person[fname]="Steve"
person[lname]="Litt"
person[job]="Programmer"
echo ${person["job"]}
=============================
Unfortunately, associative arrays are bash-only: No dash allowed.
SteveT
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