• Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      How do you get complex data structures to work? I was alienated from scripting on zsh because I wanted something like a dict and realised I would have to write my own implementation. Is there a work around for that?

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        3 hours ago

        I mean, there’s a point in data structure complexity where it’s useful to use Python.

        But as to dicts, sure. You’re looking for zsh’s “associative array”. Bash has it too.

        zsh

        $ typeset -A mydict
        $ mydict[foo]=bar 
        $ echo $mydict[foo]
        bar
        $
        

        bash

        $ typeset -A mydict
        $ mydict[foo]=bar
        $ echo ${mydict[foo]}
        bar
        $
        
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          2 hours ago

          This will do nicely - I had several workflows where I’d hit an API and get a massive super nested JSON as output; I’d use jq to get the specific data from the whole thing and do a bunch of stuff on this filtered data. I pretty much resigned to using python because I’d have successively complicated requirements and looking up how to do each new thing was slowing me down massively.