Re: Any chance of multi-dimensional arrays?

[Rene Herman]

On 11/26/2012 11:27 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> > I know that bash arrays are 1 dimensional -- but are there any
> > plans for providing multi-dimensional arrays?
>
> I don't have any current plans to do so.  I would take a look at any
> contributed code to add them, though.

Thanks for the reply. It's fairly unlikely that I will myself be able to 
try (on a sensible timescale) but it's good to know they're not vetoed.

Not being hugely experienced in bash, I was sort of impressed with there 
seemingly not being any good point in NOT using it for my collection 
management stuff -- except maybe those multi-dimensional arrays. Thought 
I'd go see what their status was...

Rene