On 3/19/14, 5:42 PM, Geir Hauge wrote: > > Description: > > With an associative array, assoc, ${assoc[key]+set} expands to the > > empty string if the associated value is the empty string. > > Thanks for the report. This was a consequence of a change made back in > 2011 to expand the value portion of the assignment statement a slightly > different way. I've attached a patch to fix it. > > > Thanks. That patch also makes [[ -v assoc[x] ]] return 0. However, > [[ -v assoc ]] returns 1 (which it also does before the patch). Sounds > related to this bug.
That's not a bug. Referencing any array without a subscript is equivalent to referencing subscript 0. In the case of an associative array, that's ${assoc["0"]}. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/