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Re: beginner needs help

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: vsv@xxxxxxx (Stefanita Valeriu Vilcu)
Subject: Re: beginner needs help
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 00:14:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960528005042.25460A-100000@burebista> from Stefanita Valeriu Vilcu at "May 28, 96 01:00:14 am"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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> Hi!
> 
> How can I expand a variable which is in another variable?
> Let me explain:
> 
> zsh$ TITI=somestuff
> zsh$ GIGI=TITI  # NOT $TITI
> 
> What command I must enter in order to obtain "somestuff" and in this 
> command must not appear TITI.

You can try something like

eval echo '$'$GIGI

Or, after

GIGI='$TITI'

you can use ${(e)GIGI} with zsh-2.6-beta17 or later (see man zshexpn).

> In fact I'm trying to use arrays with multiple dimensions (if this is 
> possible).

No, only one dimensional arrays are supported.

Zoltan

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