[arch-general] [PATCH 07/48] Simplify in_array.

Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 17:47:42 EDT 2010


All that extra checking for the first character being @ is not needed,
simple parameter expansion will trim it off if it is there.
---
 functions |   18 +++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 9d0aec3..8bbdfc6 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -136,17 +136,13 @@ status() {
 #          1 - not found
 # Copied from makepkg
 in_array() {
-  local needle=$1; shift
-  [ -z "$1" ] && return 1 # Not Found
-  local item
-  for item in "$@"; do
-    local c="${item:0:1}"
-    if [ "x$c" = "x@" ]; then
-      item="${item:1}"
-    fi
-    [ "$item" = "$needle" ] && return 0 # Found
-  done
-  return 1 # Not Found
+    [[ $2 ]] || return 1
+    local needle=$1; shift
+    local item
+    for item in "$@"; do
+	[[ ${item#@} = $needle ]] && return 0
+    done
+    return 1 # Not Found
 }
 
 # daemons:
-- 
1.7.1



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