Question

I got again tiny problem I would like to store strings in array I got following code:

echo -e "Enter an amount"
read n 
for  ((i=0;i<n;i++)); 
do 
echo "Enter number $i " 
read ${array[$i]} 
done 
echo -e "$array[@]}"

Can you have a quick look a help me ?
Thanks

Answer 1

Line 5 should probably read as:

read array[$i]

${array[$i]}, which is what you have at present, will output the value of the element of the array with the subscript $i. The read command reads user input into a specified variable, so you need to specify the variable name.