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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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ISWCTYPE(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWCTYPE(3)

NAME
iswctype - wide-character classification SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> int iswctype(wint_t wc, wctype_t desc); DESCRIPTION
If wc is a wide character having the character property designated by desc (or in other words: belongs to the character class designated by desc), the iswctype() function returns nonzero. Otherwise it returns zero. If wc is WEOF, zero is returned. desc must be a character property descriptor returned by the wctype() function. RETURN VALUE
The iswctype() function returns nonzero if the wc has the designated property. Otherwise it returns 0. CONFORMING TO
C99. NOTES
The behavior of iswctype() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. SEE ALSO
iswalnum(3), iswalpha(3), iswblank(3), iswcntrl(3), iswdigit(3), iswgraph(3), iswlower(3), iswprint(3), iswpunct(3), iswspace(3), iswup- per(3), iswxdigit(3), wctype(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1999-07-25 ISWCTYPE(3)
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