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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting namerefs alternative for KSH88 Post 302705353 by nitrobass24 on Monday 24th of September 2012 04:15:16 PM
Old 09-24-2012
namerefs alternative for KSH88

I have to use KSH88, so going to BASH, perl etc. is not an option.

Below is a much simplified verison of what I am doing (aka ignore my cut command and i not increasing) Smilie

Code:
i=1
BIGSTRING="one two three four five six seven eight"

while [[ $i -le 10 ]]; do 
typeset "STRING$i=`echo $BIGSTRING| cut -d' ' -f1-50`"
typeset -n NEWVAR="STRING$i"
do_stuff_here_w_NEWVAR
done

Namerefs are not available in KSH88
So how else i can accomplish the same thing? I need to echo a string through cut and set it to an increasing variable name based on $i then call the new variable.

Last edited by Corona688; 09-24-2012 at 05:47 PM..
 

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eval(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							  eval(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
eval - Evaluate a Tcl script SYNOPSIS
eval arg ?arg ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Eval takes one or more arguments, which together comprise a Tcl script containing one or more commands. Eval concatenates all its argu- ments in the same fashion as the concat command, passes the concatenated string to the Tcl interpreter recursively, and returns the result of that evaluation (or any error generated by it). Note that the list command quotes sequences of words in such a way that they are not further expanded by the eval command. EXAMPLE
This procedure acts in a way that is analogous to the lappend command, except it inserts the argument values at the start of the list in the variable: proc lprepend {varName args} { upvar 1 $varName var # Ensure that the variable exists and contains a list lappend var # Now we insert all the arguments in one go set var [eval [list linsert $var 0] $args] } KEYWORDS
concatenate, evaluate, script SEE ALSO
catch(1T), concat(1T), error(1T), list(1T), subst(1T), tclvars(1T) ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl eval(1T)
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