How to pass an associative array as argument to a function in Bash?
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How do you pass an associative array as an argument to a function? Is this possible in Bash?
The code below is not working as expected:
function iterateArray
{
local ADATA="${@}" # associative array
for key in "${!ADATA[@]}"
do
echo "key - ${key}"
echo "value: ${ADATA[$key]}"
done
}
Passing associative arrays to a function like normal arrays does not work:
iterateArray "$A_DATA"
or
iterateArray "$A_DATA[@]"
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