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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Joining two arrays and then creating a variable Post 302243417 by carlos25 on Sunday 5th of October 2008 11:29:11 AM
Old 10-05-2008
Basically what I want to do is take SURNAME and assign it to NAME as a variable for each element.
This is what I have come up with... ( adding/changing - [ typeset NAME[$i]="${SURNAME[$i]}" ])
Code:
#!/bin/bash

NAME="John" "Mary" "Fred"
SURNAME="Doe" "Poppins" "Flintstone"

for i in $@
do

NAME[${#NAME[@]}]=$i
SURNAME[${#SURNAME[@]}]=$i
done

for ((i=0; i < ${#NAME[@]}; i++))
do

typeset NAME[$i]="${SURNAME[$i]}"

done

echo "$John"
echo "$Mary"
echo "$Fred"

As I mentioned in my original post I got it to work another way and couldn't replicate it again. I was just wondering if it was a fluke or another way of assigning an array I was not aware of.

A follow-up question to this is how I would approach combining the two arrays together into another single array?

example: display_name="NAME[$i] ${SURNAME[$i]}"

So that it would echo ${display_name[0]} and return "John Doe"

---
Carl
 

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	     prefix	   => undef,
	     prefix_i	   => undef,
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