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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Ksh-88e shell array question
Summary: a similar sample...
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.130740.920@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 13:07:40 GMT
References: <9012190340.AA20465@lilac.berkeley.edu>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <9012190340.AA20465@lilac.berkeley.edu>, lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:
> I am attempting to turn a ksh variable into an array and then back
> into the variable after manipulation.  Here is what I have:
> 
[]
> 
> The problem is that I cannot figure out how to get the colons back into
> the PATH.  What I want to be able to do is to null out entries all together,
> so they are not even present.  What I would REALLY like to do is to
> have something like an array 'shift' type mechanism I think!

here's what i do with TERMCAP:

set -A TERMCAP $(infocmp -C)
typeset -i BIT=1
while [[ BIT -le ${#TERMCAP[@]} ]]
do	TERMCAP="${TERMCAP%:? }${TERMCAP[$BIT]} "
	(( BIT += 1 ))
done
set -A TERMCAP "$TERMCAP"
export TERMCAP

hope this helps...

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