Re: [Help-bash] Taking a slice of an array

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/9/12 10:48 AM, Bill Gradwohl wrote:

> I suggest then that this is a weak spot in the docs.
>  Parameter Expansion
>        ${parameter:offset}
>        ${parameter:offset:length}
> If parameter is an indexed array name subscripted by @ or *, the result is
> the length members of the array beginning with ${parameter[offset]}.
> 
> This makes no distinction between @ and *, and never mentions IFS. It never
> occurred to me to try * due to the docs.

Read the section on Arrays, where array subscripting is described.

It's not a "weak spot," it's just a different spot.

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