Associative arrays: error "declare: -A: invalid option"

Solution 1:

Make sure the version of bash being invoked as interpreter at the top of your shell script (#!/bin/bash or whatever) is also version 4. If you're doing:

bash --version

and it's giving you v4, do a which bash to check it's location.

Solution 2:

Here is a Workaround, if you want to use chars as array index with bash v3:

array=(
    'hello::world.'
    'nice::to meet you'
)

for index in "${array[@]}" ; do
    KEY="${index%%::*}"
    VALUE="${index##*::}"
    echo "$KEY - $VALUE"
done

Output:

hello - world.
nice - to meet you

Associative arrays: error "declare: -A: invalid option"

Solution 1:

Solution 2:

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