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sr #110799: Length of named array variables are zero.

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Submitted:  Sat 10 Dec 2022 07:41:55 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  4 - Important Status:  Done
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Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Mon 12 Dec 2022 10:25:13 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks for the report. The issue is with namerefs whose values are non-identifiers but valid length expressions.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Sat 10 Dec 2022 08:02:56 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Oh, this is also reproducible on:
5.1.12(1)-release (aarch-unknown-linux-android) from Termux.

Cheers,
Brendon

Anonymous
Sat 10 Dec 2022 07:41:55 AM UTC, original submission:  

In 5.2.2(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), the following produces an incorrect behavior:

declare -a array=(foo)
declare -n name=array[0]
echo ${name}  # foo
echo ${#name} # 0

Per section 3.5.3: Shell Parameter Expansion, of the manual:

  • ${#name} should expand to the length in characters of the expanded value of name.
  • ${name} expands to foo, which is three characters long.
  • But on my end, ${#name} expands to 0.

I'm not sure whether I'm missing something, or that this is actually incorrect.
Other expansions such as substring works correctly.

Anonymous

 

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