Thanks, the declaration syntax was what I particularly needed, got it working
now.
Definitely options there that would be supportive of future complications (more
commands, etc).
> On Feb 1, 2017, at 05:36, Philippe Bergheaud <philippe.berghe...@fr.ibm.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Modern ksh93 allows both what amounts to structures (typeset -T) and
> > arrays (typeset -a or typeset -A).
> >
> > Is it possible to have an array of structures? (in particular, an
> > associative array)
> >
> > If so, are there any examples available?
> >
> > Say that I have a structure consisting of at a minimum:
> >
> > vmhost
> > vmstartcmd
> > vmstopcmd
> >
> > and I want a structure with those members, and an array of them that
> > can be looked up by vmname, given that I have VMs on multiple hosts
> > using more than one sort of VM software (e.g. Parallels and VirtualBox).
> >
> I would simply create an associative array with
>
> $ typeset -A vm=(
> [name1]=(host='host1'; start='start1'; stop='stop1')
> [name2]=(host='host2'; start='start2'; stop='stop2')
> )
>
> The whole array could be printed in a reusable format with
>
> $ typeset -p vm
>
> Names (array indices) would be enumerated with
>
> $ print ${!vm[*]} # assuming no blanks in names
> or
> $ print "${!vm[@]}" # in the general case
>
> A name reference (a pointer) could be used to loop over the array entries
>
> $ for name in "${!vm[@]}"
> > do
> > typeset -n p=${vm[$name]}
> > print "name=$name host=${p.host} start=${p.start} stop=${p.stop}"
> > done
>
> Philippe
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