With my GNU bash, version 3.2.25 it only returns the array name "colors" but not its contents. I have also tried this trick:
It returns the array elements (on one line) but the local array doesn't exists as such as I can not access it by doing something like:
This always return the first element "pink" [0]. Of course I could access the array elements by doing:
Which is rather inelegant and clumsy. All I wanted is to create a *local* copy of the array whose name is passed to the function as positional parameter ($1 $2 ....). By the way, how can I copy an array without looping throught it and assigning values one by one. Of course, the following doesn't work:
I think I start to understand why members of this forum perfer ksh :=)
Hi All,
I have some questions regarding array arguements passing for Perl Function.
If @array contains 2 items , arguements passing would be like Code_A.
But what if @array needs to add in more items, the rest of the code like $_ will have to be modified as well (highlighted in red), which is... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to work on the script given below
#!/bin/ksh -x
pfile()
{
echo "$1"
}
touch smp19
echo "Hi" > smp19
result=$(pfile $smp19)
echo $result
As highlighted , when i pass $smp19 as parameter ,it does not display the output.However when i try giving "Hi" instead... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to write a function that reassigns an array to
another local array but the method used in reassigning
the array reformats the contents of the array which is
what I am trying to prevent.
The method used to load a file into an array works as
expected and the entire array is... (4 Replies)
Let me know if there is a way to pass array to a funtion in ksh script.
function isPresent
{
typeset member
member=$1
dbList=$2
echo '$1:' $1
echo '$2' $dbList
The array will be at the second position....something like this
isPresent 12 <array>
if
then
echo... (3 Replies)
Hi.
I have a problem with passing two dimensional array to a function.
First, let me show my code to explain what i am going to do:
I have function:void initialize_board(char board);which is supposed to modify content of passed array. I have read here: Question 6.18 how such arrays should be... (3 Replies)
this is my code to try and prinnt out a deck of cards. the print function worked when used inside main without being a function but now i cant get it to work as a function probably since i dont know how to pass a struct array in c. I gave it a shot but i keep getting an assortment of errors. The... (0 Replies)
I'm working on AIX 6, ksh shell. The parameters are some strings quotated by double quotation marks which from a file. They are quotated because there may be spaces in them.
Example:
"015607" "10" " " "A"I want to pass these parameters to a shell function by writing the following command:
... (4 Replies)
Good grief so this should be easy. Passing an array as an argument to a function. Here is the sample code:
#/bin/bash
function foo {
local p1=${1}
local p2=(${2})
local p3=${3}
echo p1 is $p1
echo p2 is $p2
echo p3 is $p3
}
d1=data1
d2=data2
a=(bat bar baz) (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to write a bash script that takes a file and passes each line from the file into an array with elements separated by column.
For example:
Sample file "file1.txt":
1 name1 a first
2 name2 b second
3 name3 c third
and have arrays such as:
line1 = ( "1" "name1" "a"... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm playing with ksh. I'm trying to do a simple task:
read file name from cli and call a function which calculated number of lines in file.
I'm getting coredump every time when I try to read that file.
Korn shell version
$ print ${.sh.version}
Version AJM 93u+ 2012-08-01
Main... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: solaris_user
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
range
RANGE(3) 1 RANGE(3)range - Create an array containing a range of elementsSYNOPSIS
array range (mixed $start, mixed $end, [number $step = 1])
DESCRIPTION
Create an array containing a range of elements.
PARAMETERS
o $start
- First value of the sequence.
o $end
- The sequence is ended upon reaching the $end value.
o $step
- If a $step value is given, it will be used as the increment between elements in the sequence. $step should be given as a posi-
tive number. If not specified, $step will default to 1.
RETURN VALUES
Returns an array of elements from $start to $end, inclusive.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
range(3) examples
<?php
// array(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
foreach (range(0, 12) as $number) {
echo $number;
}
// The step parameter
// array(0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100)
foreach (range(0, 100, 10) as $number) {
echo $number;
}
// Usage of character sequences
// array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i');
foreach (range('a', 'i') as $letter) {
echo $letter;
}
// array('c', 'b', 'a');
foreach (range('c', 'a') as $letter) {
echo $letter;
}
?>
NOTES
Note
Character sequence values are limited to a length of one. If a length greater than one is entered, only the first character is
used.
SEE ALSO shuffle(3), array_fill(3), foreach.
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