loading array from environment variable 1

[jbonin]

I have a problem loading an array from a variable containing
quotes and spaces, but interactively without a variable works fine. Here is the reproducible problem. I want the
array vararray to have the same element values as tarray,
but as you can see, when loading the same data from a
variable, it splits all the words for all the values into
separate elements of the array vararray.

Thanks for any help!

John

echo '"one two three four" "five six seven eight" "nine ten eleven"'
set -A tarray "one two three four" "five six seven eight" "nine ten eleven"
echo ${tarray[0]}
echo ${tarray[1]}
echo ${tarray[2]}
zarray='"one two three four" "five six seven eight" "nine ten eleven"'
echo $zarray
set -A vararray ${zarray}
echo ${vararray[0]}
echo ${vararray[1]}
echo ${vararray[2]}

 

[RobJordan]

Here's a function I wrote that may help you.
Click on the link below.

faq80-1573

Robert Robert G. Jordan

Robert@JORDAN2000.com

http://www.JORDAN2000.com/scripts

Unix Sys Admin
Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.