On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:10:08 -0600 Muhammed Uluyol <uluyol0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > what do you mean context? it only depends on whether the first > > character after the variablename is a valid character in a > > variablename or not. if it's valid, use braces. if it isn't, no > > need for braces. > > Arrays can't be used with $array[4], they need to be used as > ${array[4]} Also finding the string length, substitution, etc require > braces okay sure. i agree, but we (or atleast i) were (was) talking about regular variables. Dieter