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# 1  
Old 12-20-2011
Array or map Concept in Shell Script
Need a urgent help
I have a data like below

Code:
044 CN CNP
032 MB MBD
567 NH NHI
678 GY GYP
.
.
.
.
250 records

above data are loaded from a table ...

I have a shell script which will read each line and in a specific position it has extn code like ... 044 or 032 ...

i need to store the above extn and state codes in a array or ..
and to retrive a value of state codes in a variable....
# 2  
Old 12-20-2011
What is the required output? Store the contents into array and do what?
# 3  
Old 12-21-2011
the deesign is
Code:
cat fine | While read line
do
read a fields from the line - using cut i retrived that
field1 = <extn code>
 
I have to look through the array to search for the <extn code> and get the other two values ... and store it in a variable
 
field2 = <state code 1  retried from array>
field3 = <state code 2 retried from array>
 
i will use this fields to print in the other file

# 4  
Old 12-21-2011
Try this...
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while read index value
do
  arr[$index]=$value
done < input_file
 
#get value for 044
ret=044
echo ${arr[$ret]}

HTH
--ahamed
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