Using unset vs. setting a variable to empty

Question

I\'m currently writing a bash testing framework, where in a test function, both standard bash tests ([[) as well as predefined matchers can be used. Matchers ar

Answer 1

So, by unset'ting the array index 2, you essentially remove that element in the array and decrement the array size (?).

I made my own test..

foo=(5 6 8)
echo ${#foo[*]}
unset foo
echo ${#foo[*]}

Which results in..

3
0

So just to clarify that unset'ting the entire array will in fact remove it entirely.