Shell Programming and Scripting

export CFGLIST="LIST1 LIST2 LIST3"
set ${CFGLIST}
items=$#
counter=$items
while [ $counter -ne 0 ]
do
        eval output=\$${counter}
        echo "${output}"
        counter=$((${counter} - 1))
done

./scriptname
LIST3
LIST2
LIST1

#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh

export CFGLIST="LIST1 LIST2 LIST3"

# Turn it into an array
set -A CFGLIST $CFGLIST

# Array is zero-based so start one less than the number of elements.
for (( i=$((${#CFGLIST[*]}-1));i>=0;i-- ))
do
  print "Array element ${i}: ${CFGLIST[${i}]}"
done

exit 0

$ efs
Array element 2: LIST3
Array element 1: LIST2
Array element 0: LIST1
$