Re: uninvited members of associative array

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, at 6:48 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> I just noticed something.  My big array has ten named elements but if I 
> print it:
>
> printf  "%-20s %s\n" ${(kv)main} > /dev/pts/2
>
> width               90
> window            main
> offset               0
> topE                 1
> active              1
> 90                    main
> bottomE           48
> lastE                196
> hight                48
> 196                  48
> List                  1
> 0                     1
> list                  List
> 1                     48
> currentE          1
>
> ... it all works, however 'elements' 90, 196, 0 and 1 seem to have 
> created themselves, I didn't make them.

How are you creating and populating "main"?  Can you provide a test
case that the rest of us can actually use?  If I just guess the
contents of "main" then I don't see a problem.

	% cat foo.zsh
	typeset -A main
	main=(
	    active 1
	    bottomE 48
	    currentE 1
	    height 48
	    lastE 196
	    list 1
	    offset 0
	    topE 1
	    width 90
	    window main
	)

	typeset -p main

	printf '%-20s %s\n' ${(kv)main}

	% zsh -f foo.zsh
	typeset -A main=( [active]=1 [bottomE]=48 [currentE]=1 [height]=48 [lastE]=196 [list]=1 [offset]=0 [topE]=1 [width]=90 [window]=main )
	window               main
	width                90
	offset               0
	topE                 1
	height               48
	active               1
	lastE                196
	bottomE              48
	list                 1
	currentE             1

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vq