Re: nounset option: Error message points to the wrong variable when accessing associative arrays

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mai 10 2023, Baumann, Moritz wrote:

> Repeat-By:
>         set -u
>         declare -r -A myarray=( [foo]='bar' )
>         # typo in name of the associative array
>         echo ${my_array[foo]}
>
>         Expected output: bash: my_array: unbound variable
>         Actual output: bash: foo: unbound variable

This is expected.  If the array is an indexed array, the subscript is an
arithmetic expression.  When bash tries to evaluate the subscript, it
finds that foo is unbound.

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