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How do you pass an associative array as an argument to a function? Is this possible in Bash? The code below is not working as expected: function iterateArray { local ADATA="${@}" # associative array for key in "${!ADATA[@]}" do echo "key - ${key}" echo "value: ${ADATA[$key]}" done } Passing associative arrays to a function like normal arrays does not work: iterateArray "$A_DATA" or iterateArray "$A_DATA[@]" Florian Feldhaus I had exactly the same problem last week and thought about it for quite a while. It seems, that associative arrays can't be serialized or copied. There's a good Bash FAQ

I've seen numerous examples on how to take a CSV file and then create an associative array with the headers as the keys. For example: Brand,Model,Part,Test Honda,Civic,123,244 Honda,Civic,135,434 Toyota,Supra,511,664 Where it would create an Array such as Array[$num][$key] where $key would be Brand, Model, Part, Test. So If I wanted to access the test value "434" I would have to loop every index in the array and then ignore any Brands that were not honda, and any models that were not Civic What I need to do is access the value most directly, instead of running through a for loop going through

Can an array in JavaScript be associative AND indexed? I'd like to be able to lookup an item in the array by its position or a key value. There are no such things as associative arrays in Javascript. You can use object literals, which look like associative arrays, but they have unordered properties. Regular Javascript arrays are based on integer indexes, and can't be associative. For example, with this object: var params = { foo: 1, bar: 0, other: 2 }; You can access properties from the object, for example: params["foo"]; And you can also iterate over the object using the for...in statement:

I have the associative array: array["sub2"] = 1; array["sub0"] = -1; array["sub1"] = 0; array["sub3"] = 1; array["sub4"] = 0; What is the most elegant way to sort (descending) by its values where the result would be an array with the respective indices in this order: sub2, sub3, sub1, sub4, sub0 ? Ben Blank Javascript doesn't have "associative arrays" the way you're thinking of them. Instead, you simply have the ability to set object properties using array-like syntax (as in your example), plus the ability to iterate over an object's properties. The upshot of this is that there is no guarantee