KSH shell arrays

[alfie002]

Hello all,

I am currently using an array within an ksh script. I have included an example of the array definition as follows;

target[0]="OVsPMD ovsessionmgr ovtrapd ovactiond ovalarmsrv pmd genannosrvr httpd ovrequested ovdbcheck"

In this a space defines the values in the array. Is there any way to change this from a space to another character ?

Thanks

Alf

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Try:

tmp=`echo "${target[0]}"|tr ' ' '~'`
target[0]="$tmp"

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[alfie002]

thanks will give it a go.

Thanks

Alf

 

[Annihilannic]

Hi Alf,

With this syntax you are not really using an array at all, just assigning all of the values to index 0 of the array. If you really want target[0] to be set to "OvSMPD", target[1] to be set to "ovsessionmgr", etc. you need to do something like this:

[tt]set -A target OVsPMD ovsessionmgr ovtrapd ovactiond ovalarmsrv pmd genannosrvr httpd ovrequested ovdbcheck[/tt]

To use a different field separater is a little more tricky, this should work:

[tt]temptarget="OVsPMD-ovsessionmgr-ovtrapd-ovactiond-ovalarmsrv-pmd-genannosrvr-httpd-ovrequested-ovdbcheck"
IFS=-
set -A target $temptarget
unset IFS[/tt]

I'm not sure why you can't just set IFS and then set -A target=OVsPMD-ovesessionmgr-etc; I had to do it in two steps like the example above.

Annihilannic.