Cam Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: > Sigh. Sorry, it was a typo. That explains why it did not work for the OP.
Phew! These array things are new to me in a shell context - I've used associative and indexed arrays for years in awk and perl, though - and after your example didn't work I went digging through the man page. I missed it the first time I read the paragraph, but then twigged the explicit use of the word "compound" in the relevant sentence: "When += is applied to an array variable using compound assignment (see Arrays below) ... new values are appended to the array ...". Digging further I found that "compound" referred to a list assignment such as X=($Y $Z). Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
