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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions passing letters from an array into a string for string comparison Post 302602990 by agama on Tuesday 28th of February 2012 11:41:57 PM
Old 02-29-2012
Glad it worked, you discovered what I was thinking of (assigning it to a tmp variable and testing against that after removing blanks).

I also tried something similar to your other efforts, ${arrayname[@]// /}], and that fails. Actually it succeeds, but not in the way you wanted. The substitution is applied to each element as they are echoed, and not to the overall expansion as a whole. I also thought that setting the field separator might work, but alas that failed too.

So, best I can tell, no there isn't a way to apply it directly. Maybe somebody else round here might know better.
 

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asn1_expand_octet_string

asn1_expand_octet_string(3)					     libtasn1					       asn1_expand_octet_string(3)

NAME

       asn1_expand_octet_string - API function

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libtasn1.h>

       asn1_retCode asn1_expand_octet_string(ASN1_TYPE definitions, ASN1_TYPE * element, const char * octetName, const char * objectName);

ARGUMENTS

       ASN1_TYPE definitions
		   ASN1 definitions

       ASN1_TYPE * element
		   pointer to an ASN1 structure

       const char * octetName
		   name of the OCTECT STRING field to expand.

       const char * objectName
		   name of the OBJECT IDENTIFIER field to use to define the type for expansion.

DESCRIPTION

       Expands an "OCTET STRING" element of a structure created from a DER decoding process (the asn1_der_decoding() function).  The type used for
       expansion is the first one following the definition of the actual value of the OBJECT IDENTIFIER indicated by OBJECTNAME.

RETURNS

       ASN1_SUCCESS if substitution OK, ASN1_ELEMENT_NOT_FOUND if objectName or octetName are not correct, ASN1_VALUE_NOT_VALID if it wasn't  pos-
       sible to find the type to use for expansion, or other errors depending on DER decoding.

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