PATH525[1]="/eos/uscms/store/user/pooja04//analysis2012/525/data/doubleele/2012/datav1/"
PATH525[2]="/eos/uscms/store/user/pooja04//analysis2012/525/data/doubleele/2012/datav4/"
PATHZY[1]="/eos/uscms/store/user/pooja04//analysis2012/533/mc/zgammav1/"
                                                                                                                                                         
PATH533[1]="/eos/uscms/store/user/pooja04//analysis2012/533/data/datav14/"

CopyFiles() {
    PATHNAME="$paths"  # Assuming you are using $paths as by default path for PATHNAME.
    
    if [ "$2" = "525" ]; then
        PATHNAME=${PATH525[1]} # I need to use both the array element here. Same for other arrays as well. I tried using *, but did not help..
    elif [ "$2" = "533" ]; then
        PATHNAME=${PATH533[1]} # PATH533 this is an array...
    elif [ "$2" = "ZY" ]; then
        PATHNAME=${PATHZY[1]} # PATHZY this is an array...
    fi
    echo "pathname is $PATHNAME"
    
        
    if [[ ! -e "dest_path/$PATHNAME" ]]; then
    ls -ltr "$PATHNAME" | grep root | awk '{print string path $9}' string="$CONSTANT" path="$PATHNAME"  >> "$FileName"
              echo "$PATHNAME is copied"
    else
    echo "Check the FileName in $PATHNAME"
    fi
    }

# assignment
# first a fixed element:
array[1]="some-value"
# or with a variable:
index=2
array[$index]="other-value"

# now retrieve the values from the array
# first a fixed index:
echo "Array[1] is: ${array[1]}"

# now with a variable:
index=2
echo "Array[$index] is: ${array[$index]}"

# finally with a loop:

(( index = 1 ))
while [ $index -le ${array[@]} ] ; do
     echo "Array[$index] holds: ${array[$index]}"
     (( index += 1 ))
done