On 5/4/09, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] Swapping array elements through temporary
> variable == typeset: : invalid variable name
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> > > The following one line example should print "cc bb aa" but yields to a
> > > syntax error:
> > >
> > > ksh93 -c 'typeset -a a=( [0]="aa" [1]="bb" [2]="cc" ) ; typeset -m
> > > 'j=a[0]' ; typeset -m 'a[0]=a[1]' ; typeset -m 'a[1]=j' ; print
> > > "$...@]}"'
> > > ksh93[1]: typeset: : invalid variable name
> > >
> > > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
> >
>
>
> > typeset -m a=b should rename variable b to a.
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> It works for variables (including array variables), but not for individual
> array elements.
That does not sound very useful. IMO typeset -m should allow to move
any kind of variable, including whole arrays or individual array
elements, to a local variable and a local variable into an array
element.
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