On Dec 11, 2007 8:17 AM, Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Some eclasses (kernel-2, font) use variable to pass space separated PATH
> to patch or fontconfig files from ebuild to eclass. In ebuild we use:
>
> FONT_CONF="path1 path2"
>
> Then eclasses use the variable:
>
> for conffile in ${FONT_CONF}; do
> ...
> done
>
> The problem with this doesn't work if path{1,2} contain spaces. The
> solution I'm thinking about is to you arrays:
>
> FONT_CONF=("path1" "path2")
>
> for conffile in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; do
> ...
> done
>
> But is this good idea? Are there better?
>
> --
> Peter.
>
I agree using arrays would be much better, you can also loop through the
arrays like.
for ((i=0;i<${#FONT_CONF[*]};i++)); do echo "${FONT_CONF[i]}"; done
this way you can avoid spacing because you'll just be calling each array
element in order using quotes.
Fernando
