Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:51:58 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: proposed new builtin for /bin/sh (associative arrays) Message-ID: <20031101115158.GA48033@pc5.i.0x5.de> In-Reply-To: <200310312016.h9VKGv8X006950@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20031031014331.A71967@xorpc.icir.org> <200310312016.h9VKGv8X006950@lurza.secnetix.de>
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* Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> [2003-10-31 21:16 +0100]:
> Maybe I'm not understanding your intentions, but isn't that
> already possible using "set | sed -n '/^foo_/s/=.*//p'"?
>
> Or do you want to avoid external programs? In that case it
> would be a little bit more difficult to do, but it's still
> possible to do with existing builtins:
>
> indexes()
> {
> for i in `set`; do
> case $i in
> $1*) echo ${i%%=*}
> esac
> done
> }
I think both of these could fail with multiline values.
Nicolas
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