Re: Changing the way bash expands associative array subscripts

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/8/21 6:23 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:

> I currently don't have any better idea, but in that way, it seems to
> me that there is no way to represent a reference to an element
> associated with key=@ under the new `assoc_expand_once', which was
> what I wanted to argue in my previous reply.  

Under what circumstances? In shell builtins? Something else? Certainly
the following will work:

declare -A assoc
key=@

assoc[$key]=at
assoc[!]=bang

echo ${assoc[$key]}

and print `at'.

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