Timeline for Passing arrays in to the function in bash script

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May 23, 2020 at 9:44	history	edited	Paul_Pedant	CC BY-SA 4.0	Removed incorrect assertion about arrays as function arguments.
May 23, 2020 at 9:38	comment	added	Paul_Pedant		@StéphaneChazelas Had I not tested this, I would not have had the opportunity to be astonished. But it has vanished from my history, and I can't reconstruct what I thought I did. So conceded and edited. I did run across this construct which lets you alter global arrays by variable name from within functions: declare -g "$1[4]=abc";
May 22, 2020 at 12:01	comment	added	glenn jackman		Yes, the index part of an indexed array element notation is an arithmetic expression, and the `$` is not required for shell variables in an arithmetic expression: `"${N[n]}"`
May 22, 2020 at 11:05	comment	added	Stéphane Chazelas		Note that you can also do `${files[i]}` which saves the double translation between integer and number.
May 22, 2020 at 11:04	comment	added	Stéphane Chazelas		What do you mean by `"${1[${i}]}"` works? I get a `bad substitution` error in bash 5.0.16
May 22, 2020 at 11:01	history	edited	Stéphane Chazelas	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 12 characters in body
May 22, 2020 at 10:10	history	answered	Paul_Pedant	CC BY-SA 4.0