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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Array in Ksh Post 302670451 by bakunin on Thursday 12th of July 2012 05:50:32 AM
Old 07-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jeanzibbin
is there any other way to do the same thing with out too many conditions.
That depends on if you need to find out the index or not.

If you need the array index of the element matching the input you have to search through the array, though i would prefer some dynamic solution. If your arrays would become a different size you will have to edit the for-loop to reflect this. But "${#arrayname[@]}" (or ${#arrayname[*]}") evaluates to the number of elements in an array an therefore:

Code:
typeset -a array 1 2 3 4 5 6
typeset -i index=0

while [ $index -lt ${#array[*]} ] ; do
     print - "Array element $index holds: ${array[$index]}"
     (( index += 1 ))
done

will cycle through all array elements regardless of how many there are.

Note that "*" or "@" as a subscript will always address all array elements, for instance:

Code:
typeset -a array a b c d e f g

print - "all array elements: ${array[*]}"
print - "all array elements too: ${array[@]}"

You could use this to "grep" through all elements at once if you only need to know if the input is in the array or not.

There is only one subtle difference between the "*" and the "@" subscript: one evaluates to all elements separated by the IFS (internal field separator) and the other to all elements in one string.

You see the difference here. First store a script called "countargs.sh" and flag it executable:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

typeset -i index=0

print - "Numbers of arguments given: $?"

while [ -n "$1" ] ; do
     print - "argument $index is: \"$1\""
     shift
     (( index += 1 ))
done

exit 0

Now call this script with the following script:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
typeset -a array a b c d 1 2 3

/path/to/countargs.sh ${array[*]}
/path/to/countargs.sh ${array[@]}

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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