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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [bash] passing array to function Post 302364759 by ASGR on Friday 23rd of October 2009 07:17:27 PM
Old 10-23-2009
Thank you again.

The corrected code works flawlessly. Additionally,
I can use it within other functions to assign arrays.
Your help and solution has exceeding my expectations.

For the benefit of other users the whole code follows:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

function array_assign
{
	eval "$1=( \"\${$2[@]}\" )"
}

function array_count
{
	eval "$1=( \${#$2[@]} )"
}

function array_load
{
	local		_FILE_;		_FILE_=( $(eval "echo \$2") )
	local -a	_THIS_
	while read _LINE_; do
		case $_LINE_ in
		'#'*)	continue;;		# lines to exclude
		'*'*)	continue;;
		'/'*)	continue;;
		"")	continue;;
		*)	_THIS_[_I_++]=" \"$_LINE_\"";;
		esac
	done < $_FILE_
	eval "$1=( ${_THIS_[@]} )"
}

#usage:
declare    filename=/path/to/file/array.data
declare -a _array1_ _array2_
declare -i _count_

array_load _array1_ $filename
array_assign _array2_ _array1_
array_count _count_ _array2_

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