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And slightly tweaking agama's solution, here's without the use of temp file.

#! /bin/bash

i=0
while IFS=, read a b
do
names[$i]=${a#*=}
locs[$i]=$b
(( i++ ))
done < inputfile

This is straight forward and should work in both Kshell and bash. After the loop executes two arrays (indexed 0 to n-1) will exist:


i=0
sed 's/.*=//; s/,/ /' your-file >/tmp/tfile.$$
while...

I got it to work...I changed the mode to binary and it worked(duh!)
Thanks for the reply guys!