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Old 07-19-2017
While read -a line not working in ksh
Code:
while read -a line;

this is not working in ksh. what is the equivalent of this in ksh.


read: -a: unknown option
Last edited by rbatte1; 07-20-2017 at 07:29 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 07-20-2017
You could try:

Code:
read words
set -A my_array $(printf "%s " $words)


eg:

Code:
$ read words
zero one two three

$ set -A my_array $(printf "%s " $words)
$ echo ${my_array[0]} ${my_array[3]}
zero three

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Old 07-20-2017
My version of ksh:
Code:
Version AJM 93u+ 2012-08-01

From the man page:
Code:
       read  [  -ACSprsv  ] [ -d delim] [ -n n] [ [ -N n] [ [ -t timeout] [ -u
       unit] [ vname?prompt ] [ vname ... ]
              ...
              nal device.  The -A option causes the variable vname to be unset
              and each field that is read to be stored in successive  elements
              of  the  indexed array vname.  ...

So instead of
Code:
read -a arr

use
Code:
read -A arr

Andrew
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