Re: fix scope problem with variable in bash script

On 7/28/22 23:56, David C. Rankin wrote:

Chuckling -- good example,

  but with b="mystring", echo $b would still by "mystring" ;-)

Though with Arithmetic Expansion after declare -i it would evaluate 0. The point I was making is there is no error of any type associate with b="mystring" after declare -i b. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.