Don: It looks like I could accomplish what I want with ksh, except the output would need to be grouped by index as opposed to array names:
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You can't do it quite the way you were trying to do it because you can't currently create arrays of nameref variables
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The underlying problem is: arrays in bash (and ksh88 as well) are ONE-dimensional. Therefore, you can create a variable holding a one-dimensional array, but you can't put other array variables as elements into this array.
I had a feeling I'd get that kind of answer but was still hoping for a syntax fix
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This would rely on "${selector}" to be evaluated first and only then the resulting "${xfoo}" to be evaluated again. But, as i said, this is not the case and therefore this will fail.
Yes that's exactly what I wanted, evaluate "${selector}" first then "${xfoo}" :S
Because my script is pretty much done and I've never written ksh before, I guess I'll just stick to adding array names manually as I go. At least this implementation works in bash.
Thanks!
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As a show-off of skill, though, it is pretty cool. No?
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