Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to create arrays like this:

cnt=0
{ while read myline; do
if [[ $myline = "<meas>"* ]];then
firstpass="${myline##<meas>}"
meas="${firstpass%%</meas>}"
tempmeas="${meas%%;*}"
MEAS$cnt[$cnt]=$tempmeas
print $cnt
print ${MEAS'$cnt'[$cnt]}
line1=$line1$meas$colon$stream$colon
((cnt=cnt+1))
fi
done } < $dspbfile

What I want is MEAS0[0]="First Meas"
MEAS1[0]="Second Meas"
MEAS2[0]="Third Meas"

I will not know how many I need until I am in this loop. Can I do something like this? Right now I am getting these errors:
./PDSBatch.ksh[318]: MEAS$cnt[0]=MFC: not found
0
./PDSBatch.ksh[320]: ${MEAS"\$cnt"[$cnt]}: bad substitution

Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

Allyson

I figured it out. I am going to do this:


mymeas=`echo "MEAS"$cnt`
echo $mymeas


and use $mymeas as each array.

Thanks.

Allyson

Well, I thought I had it. I can fill up my arrays and if I specify them by whole name then I get the values. But if I try to use the variable to get the values, then I get an error. Here is where I am trying to get them out:

wholemeas=`echo "MEAS"$cnt`
echo $wholemeas
echo ${#MEAS0[*]}
**** ERROR eval $wholemeas[0]
echo ${MEAS0[*]}
echo ${MEAS0[0]}
echo ${MEAS0[1]}
echo ${MEAS0[2]}
echo ${MEAS0[3]}

All the lines produce the correct data except the one I mared with ERROR. I have tried all different combinations of eval, echo and without either and I can't seem to get the data that I want. I want MFC which is what the line echo ${MEAS0[0]} produces. wholemeas = MEAS0 in this case.

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

Allyson