If I understood your situation correctly, I believe the solution is to use eval to pass the result of the command substitution though the shell's parser.
I'm using an old version of bash which does not support "set -A", so I'm using positional parameters instead of an array variable to try and explain myself. The principles involved are identical. Hopefully, I am able to get my point across
Hope this helped,
alister
Last edited by alister; 01-04-2010 at 10:52 PM..
Reason: typos
Hi,
Please can someone help to return the array elements from a function. Currently the problem I face is that tempValue stores the value in myValue as a string while I need an array of values to be returned instead of string.
Many Thanks,
Sudhakar
the function called is:
... (5 Replies)
I would like to find a list of files in a directory less than 2 days old and put them into an array variable. And then search for each file in the array for a matching string say "Return-code= 0". If it matches, then display the array element with a message as "OK".
Your help will be greatly... (1 Reply)
Hi,
My doubt is how to access array elements..
Situation is as below:
#!/bin/ksh
set -x
typeset -i x=0
typeset -i y=0
typeset -i BID=0
typeset -i count=0
while ] ; do
x=`expr $x + 1`;
hwmgr show scsi > scsi.tmp
while read line; do
set... (1 Reply)
Is there a way to print multiple array elements without iterating through the array using bash?
Can you do something like...
echo ${array}and get all those separate elements from the array? (2 Replies)
Hi I have two arrays :
@arcb= (450,625,720,645);
@arca=(625,645);
I need to remove the elements of @arca from elements of @arcb so that the content of @arcb will be (450,720).
Can anyone sugget me how to perform this operation?
The code I have used is this :
my @arcb=... (3 Replies)
I have a script which takes backup of some configuration files on my server. It does that by using an array which contains the complete path to the files to backup.
It copys the files to a pre defined dir. Each "program" has it's own folder, ex. apache.conf is being copied to /predefined... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I can't find out how to create correct code to get multiplication of each elements of array. Let's say I enter array into command line (2 3 4 5 6 8) and i need output 2*3*4*5*6*8=5760.
I tried this one, but answer is 0.
for i in $@; do
mult=$((mult*i))done
echo "mult: " $mult
... (4 Replies)
Hi
I wanted to print random elements from an array at bash shell
I use the following code, but I always see first element getting printed
#!/bin/bash
c=1
expressions=(pink red white yellow purple)
while ]; do
echo "The value of RANDOM is $RANDOM"
selectedexpression=${expressions}]};... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
need help with reading the array and sum of the array elements.
given an array of integers of size N . You need to print the sum of the elements in the array, keeping in mind that some of those integers may be quite large.
Input Format
The first line of the input consists of an... (1 Reply)
I have an array code and output is below:
echo $1
while read -r fline; do
echo "%%%%%%$fline%%%%%"
fmy_array+=("$fline")
done <<< "$1"
Output:
CR30903 YU0007 SRIL CR30903 Yogesh SRIL
%%%%%%CR30903 YU0007 SRIL%%%%%
%%%%%%CR30903 Yogesh SRIL%%%%%
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
test::data::array
Array(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Array(3pm)NAME
Test::Data::Array -- test functions for array variables
SYNOPSIS
use Test::Data qw(Array);
DESCRIPTION
Functions
array_any_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if any element of ARRAY is ITEM.
array_none_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if no element of ARRAY is ITEM.
array_once_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if only one element of ARRAY is ITEM.
array_multiple_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if more than one element of ARRAY is ITEM.
array_max_ok( NUMBER, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if all elements of ARRAY are numerically less than or equal to NUMBER.
array_min_ok( NUMBER, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if all elements of ARRAY are numerically greater than or equal to NUMBER.
array_maxstr_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if all elements of ARRAY are asciibetically less than or equal to MAX.
array_minstr_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if all elements of ARRAY are asciibetically greater than or equal to MAX.
array_sum_ok( SUM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if the numerical sum of ARRAY is SUM.
array_empty_ok( ARRAY [, NAME] )
Ok if the array contains no elements.
array_length_ok( ARRAY, LENGTH [, NAME] )
Ok if the array contains LENGTH number of elements.
array_sortedstr_ascending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
Ok if each succeeding element is asciibetically greater than or equal to the one before.
array_sortedstr_descending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
Ok if each succeeding element is asciibetically less than or equal to the one before.
array_sorted_ascending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
Ok if each succeeding element is numerically greater than or equal to the one before.
array_sorted_descending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
Ok if each succeeding element is numerically less than or equal to the one before.
SEE ALSO
Test::Data, Test::Data::Scalar, Test::Data::Function, Test::Data::Hash, Test::Builder
SOURCE AVAILABILITY
This source is in Github:
http://github.com/briandfoy/test-data/tree/master
AUTHOR
brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2002-2009 brian d foy. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.2 2009-02-12 Array(3pm)