How to pass an associative array as argument to a

Question

How do you pass an associative array as an argument to a function? Is this possible in Bash?

The code below is not working as expected:

function iterateArray
{
    local ADATA="${@}"            # associative array

for key in "${!ADATA[@]}"
do
    echo "key - ${key}"
    echo "value: ${ADATA[$key]}"

done

}

Passing associative arrays to a function like normal arrays does not work:

iterateArray "$A_DATA"

or

iterateArray "$A_DATA[@]"

Answer 1

yo:

 #!/bin/bash
   declare -A dict

   dict=(
    [ke]="va"
    [ys]="lu"
    [ye]="es" 
   )

   fun() {
     for i in $@; do
       echo $i
     done
    }

   fun ${dict[@]} # || ${dict[key]} || ${!dict[@] || ${dict[$1]} 

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