Arrays cannot be exported the same way variables can be. This is a known limitiation in Korn Shell. You can export every single
array element (by using the array name this is the first element by default, as you have already experienced), but not the array itself.
Either you do something like:
Code:
(( iCnt = 0 ))
while [ $iCnt -lt ${array[*]} ] ; do
export array[$iCnt]
(( iCnt += 1 ))
done
or you do a little trick: you can pass the arrays name as a parameter to a subroutine, yes? Then use eval to copy the array into a local array. Here is an example:
Code:
function pShowArray
{
typeset chArrayName="$1"
typeset -i iCnt=0
(( iCnt = 0 )) # copy array into local (to the function) array
while [ $iCnt -le $(eval print \${#$1[*]}) ] ; do
typeset aLocalArray[$iCnt]=$(eval print - \${$1[$iCnt]})
(( iCnt += 1 ))
done
print - "The passed array is named: $chArrayname"
print - "It has ${#aLocalArray[@]} elements, which are:"
(( iCnt = 0 ))
while [ $iCnt -le ${#aLocalArray[@]} ] ; do
print - "Element #${iCnt} is \"${aLocalArray[$iCnt]}\""
(( iCnt += 1 ))
done
return 0
}
# ---- function main
typeset aArrOne[0]="foo"
typeset aArrOne[1]="bar"
typeset aArrOne[2]="wee"
typeset aArrOne[3]="duh"
typeset aArrTwo[0]="1"
typeset aArrTwo[1]="2"
typeset aArrTwo[2]="3"
pShowArray aArrayOne
pShowArray aArrayTwo
exit 0
I hope this helps. It is somewhat like passing parameters via a pointer instead of passing them directly, isn't it?
bakunin
