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Old 02-23-2012
help with reading command line into array
Code:
        set -A title
        set -A author
        count=1
        index=0
        while [ $count -le $numarg ]
        do
                read -A ${title[$index]}?"Booktitle: "
                read -A ${author[$index]}?"Author(s): "
                (( count = count + 1 ))
                (( index = index + 1 ))
        done

Hi this is my code and i am trying to use this loop to prompt the user using the read ksh command and then store the response they give into each element of the array but when i try and run the script i get the error ... that read : bad options. I don't really understand how to create arrays in ksh yet so maybe iv done that wrong? any help would be appreciciated..
# 2  
Old 02-26-2012
When you assign to an array element, you don't need the ${..} construct. It also seems that the -A option causes issues when assigning to an array element. When I tested it I needed to use the syntax below to have the response saved if it contained blanks:

Code:
        set -A title
        set -A author
        count=1
        index=0
        while [ $count -le $numarg ]
        do
                read  title[$index]?"Booktitle: "
                read author[$index]?"Author(s): "
                (( count = count + 1 ))
                (( index = index + 1 ))
        done

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