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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't stop shell interpreting special characters Post 90558 by tmarikle on Wednesday 23rd of November 2005 07:03:06 PM
Old 11-23-2005
Q1: Turn globbing off (set -f) before assigning * to an array element; turn it on again after you are done (set +f)
Code:
set -f
set -A array * * * *
set +f

Q2: Maybe I don't understand what you want to do but variables in Korn shell can be manipulated by using sed so, at a minumum, you can do something like this:

Code:
variable=$(print $variable | sed "s/\(strin\)g/\1/")

 

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ARRAY_UINTERSECT_ASSOC(3)						 1						 ARRAY_UINTERSECT_ASSOC(3)

array_uintersect_assoc - Computes the intersection of arrays with additional index check, compares data by a callback function

SYNOPSIS
array array_uintersect_assoc (array $array1, array $array2, [array $...], callable $value_compare_func) DESCRIPTION
Computes the intersection of arrays with additional index check, compares data by a callback function. Note that the keys are used in the comparison unlike in array_uintersect(3). The data is compared by using a callback function. PARAMETERS
o $array1 - The first array. o $array2 - The second array. o $value_compare_func - The comparison function must return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than the second. int callback (mixed $a, mixed $b) RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing all the values of $array1 that are present in all the arguments. EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_uintersect_assoc(3) example <?php $array1 = array("a" => "green", "b" => "brown", "c" => "blue", "red"); $array2 = array("a" => "GREEN", "B" => "brown", "yellow", "red"); print_r(array_uintersect_assoc($array1, $array2, "strcasecmp")); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [a] => green ) SEE ALSO
array_uintersect(3), array_intersect_assoc(3), array_intersect_uassoc(3), array_uintersect_uassoc(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_UINTERSECT_ASSOC(3)
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