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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Refering to compound variables with a variable name Post 302740027 by gary_w on Wednesday 5th of December 2012 10:41:28 AM
Old 12-05-2012
I believe you are trying to do something like this. Note you need Korn shell 93::
Code:
$ cat x
#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh

## Define Compound variables.
cmp_var1=( code=10 desc="hello" )
cmp_var2=( code=20 desc="world" )

## Create array of compound variables.
set -A cmp_varnames cmp_var1 cmp_var2

## Print the descriptions.
for cmp in ${cmp_varnames[*]}
do
  # Use a name reference instead of eval.
  typeset -n mydesc="$cmp.desc"
  print $mydesc
done

exit 0
$ ./x
hello
world
$

 

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