Thank you both for your replies. Actually I had tried a version with String variable instead of Array. The exact syntaxt for it should be:
#!/bin/bash
JAVA_HOME=/opt/jvm/jre1.5.0_18...
I am writing a shell script to build Java options dynamically in a variable array and pass them to java.exe. If an option value contains a space, I cannot find a way to get it interpreted...