Shell Programming and Scripting

Using Cygwin PDksh - But also have tested it on Linux with same results
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I have a script that invokes a program/script and returns a string of data (1234 "12 34 56" 6789) and using "set -A" inserting it into an array.

script code snipit >>

get_array=$(php C:\\working\\php_array.php) # returns data string - for example (1234 "12 34 56" 6789)
set -A data_array $get_array #creates an array using the output from the program/script above
print "${data_array[0]}" # printing array elements
print "${data_array[1]}"
print "${data_array[2]}"

<<<

What I think should be returned is:

1234
12 34 56
6789

But what I get is:

1234
"12
34
56"
6789

When the script is run it doesn't return the expected (1234 "12 34 56" 6789) it returns (1234 "12 34). However, if I change the script to use the "set -A data_array 1234 "12 34 56" 6789 it returns the expected array construction.

What am I missing here?

Maybe try...

Code:

eval set -A data_array "$get_array"

Thanks... I considered using "eval" before but didn't have the correct syntax to make it work.

Simple!