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  1. Jan 2023
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    1. Just let it expand inside an array declaration's right side: list=(../smth*/) # grab the list echo "${#list[@]}" # print array length echo "${list[@]}" # print array elements for file in "${list[@]}"; do echo "$file"; done # loop over the array
  5. Dec 2021
    1. declaration accepts: | null | [] | [null] | [{foo: 'BAR'}] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Vote!]! | no | yes | no | yes [Vote]! | no | yes | yes | yes [Vote!] | yes | yes | no | yes [Vote] | yes | yes | yes | yes
  6. Sep 2021
  7. Jun 2021
    1. I don't think this warrants adding to the Array class, since it's not generalizable to all the types that Arrays can contain.

      You could say the same thing about Array#sort. It can cause an error if elements of the array aren't all of the same type/shape. Just make sure it's safe to use first, and thenArray#sort, Array#sum, Array#average, ... are all quite handy and useful to have on Array class.

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  13. Aug 2020
    1. Note that the double quotes around "${arr[@]}" are really important. Without them, the for loop will break up the array by substrings separated by any spaces within the strings instead of by whole string elements within the array. ie: if you had declare -a arr=("element 1" "element 2" "element 3"), then for i in ${arr[@]} would mistakenly iterate 6 times since each string becomes 2 substrings separated by the space in the string, whereas for i in "${arr[@]}" would iterate 3 times, correctly, as desired, maintaining each string as a single unit despite having a space in it.
  14. Jul 2020
    1. Arrays are not sets. Trying to treat them as if they are is an error, and will create subtle problems. What should be the result of the following operations? [1, 1] | [1] [1] | [1, 1] Of course, there are more interesting examples. These two are to get you started. I don't care what the results currently are. I don't care what you think they should be. I can present extremely strong arguments for various answers. For this reason, I believe that #| is an ill-defined concept. Generalizing an ill-defined concept is a world of pain. If you insist on treating objects of one class as if they were members of a different class, there should be bumps in the road to at least warn you that maybe this is a bad idea. I'm not going to argue that we should remove or deprecate #|. I don't think of myself as a fanatic. But encouraging this sort of abuse of the type system just creates problems.
    1. So why isn't there an easy way to remove an element from such an array in a way that respects both the order and number (count) of each element? Why do all methods for removing elements from an array assume that you always want to remove all matching elements from the receiver, with no option to do otherwise?
  15. May 2020
    1. An array constructor is an expression that builds an array value using values for its member elements. A simple array constructor consists of the key word ARRAY, a left square bracket [, a list of expressions (separated by commas) for the array element values, and finally a right square bracket ].
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