Re: [bug-gawk] array initialization

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 05:28:02PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> Based on some debugging, I believe one can actually get a "null" (typeless) 
> array
> like so:
>    split("", y)

Well, oops, this approach doesn't seem to work for subarrays:

bash-4.2$ ./gawk 'BEGIN {split("", y[1]); print isarray(y)}'
gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal: split: second argument is not an array

So using "split" does not seem to work in the general case.

Is there a way to do this properly? This two-step process seems to work:
   y[1][1] = 0
   split("", y[1])
But that's rather cumbersome...

Regards,
Andy