Moved the variable declaration to the top of the parser and explicitly set the values to argv, argExpected and argChunks to empty arrays

Author: moebrowne

argument-parser.sh

@@ -8,8 +8,17 @@ regexArgLongWithValue='^--([a-zA-Z0-9\-]{2,})=(.*)$'
 
 regexArgDefault='^([^=]+)=(.+) -'
 
+# Initialise some variables
+declare -A argv;
+argv=()
+declare -A argExpected
+argExpected=()
+declare -a argChunks
 argChunks=()
 
+lastWasArgument=0
+lastArgument=""
+
 # Expand chained short form arguments, eg -aih => -a -i -h
 for argChunk in "$@"; do
 
@@ -41,13 +50,6 @@ done
 
 [ "$ARG_DEBUG" == true ] && echo "Expanded argument list: ${argChunks[@]}"
 
-# Initialise some variables
-declare -A argv
-lastWasArgument=0
-lastArgument=""
-
-declare -A argExpected
-
 argGetName() {
 	for k in "${!argExpected[@]}"
 	do