[ale] Bash vs Perl

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 20:00:46 -0400
Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Parsing text in bash is much harder than in Perl. Associative arrays
> in bash really help.

I didn't know bash had associative arrays. Thanks!

=============================
#!/bin/bash

declare -A person
person[fname]="Steve"
person[lname]="Litt"
person[job]="Programmer"

echo ${person["job"]}
=============================

Unfortunately, associative arrays are bash-only: No dash allowed.

SteveT

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