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Re: [Help-bash] Bash 3 - multidimensional arrays?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] Bash 3 - multidimensional arrays? |
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Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:10:01 -0400 |
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:24:12PM -0700, Jester, Jeremiah D wrote:
> Does anyone know if Bash 3 support multi-dimensional arrays? If so,
> could you provide an example?
Not directly. The closest approximation you can get is:
array[i*1000+j]=element
Just pick some constant that's large enough. Bash arrays are sparse,
so it won't actually allocate all the memory for the unused slots.