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Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] Enumerate member variable names in compound
variable?
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> David, your example doesn't work for nested compound variables, i.e.
> 'compound x=( a=1 b=2 c=3 compound d=( a=1 b=2 compund z=( y=3 )) )'.
> I tried it myself and did not found a simple way to extract just the
> names of the members of the top level and not any level below.
>
> Olga
>
The following function should output only the top level.
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function members
{
typeset nval IFS=$'\n' blank=$' \t'
nameref var=$1
for nval in $(print -v var)
do case $nval in
$'\t\t'*) ;;
*=*) nval=${nval%%=*}
print "${nval##*[$blank]}";;
esac
done
}
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David Korn
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