Fantastic.

Should have seen the intermingling but I was working from
several examples and ended up copy/pasting from several
scripts.

Thanks to both jlliagre and Scrutinizer for all your help.

For future reference, these scripts work:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
ARRAY[0]='#!/usr/bin/python'
ARRAY[1]='print "Hello, Python!"'

IFS="
 "

script="$(echo "${ARRAY[*]}")"
eval "${ARRAY[0]#\#!}" <(printf "$script")

and

Code:

#!/bin/bash
ARRAY[0]='#!/usr/bin/perl -w'
ARRAY[1]='use strict;'
ARRAY[2]='print "Hello, Perl!\n";'

IFS="
 "

script="$(echo "${ARRAY[*]}")"
eval "${ARRAY[0]#\#!}" <(printf "$script")

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Just a small problem.

The function that loads and assigns the array that contains the
script seems to imply double quotes. Is their a quick method
that could be built into a function to convert each element of
an array from double quotes to single quotes. Or if possible, to
include it within the eval statement.

I tried putting single quote escape characters around ARRAY
but that didn't seem to work.

A.