Re: Useless Use Of Regexes

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

Don’t forget the option of JSON-format output, for even easier processing
in scripts than messing around with regexes.

Kinda yes, but for a script I'd really like to just get the data
directly in an associative array that I can use as is. Instead of
messing around with jq. I just took a look around in Stack Exchange but
meh. One simplish bash example was this:

typeset -A myarray

while IFS== read -r key value; do
    myarray["$key"]="$value"
done < <(jq -r '.SITE_DATA | to_entries | .[] | .key + "=" + .value ' file.json)

But that still pukes if the data happens to have a numeric value and in
ip route output at least the metric value is numeric. So apparently it
needs to become .key + "=" + (.value|tostring) to handle that.