Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
I need some help in merging arrays. I have two arrays and using korn shell

Array1
AB23
AB24

Array2
CD00
CD01
CD02

Elements from array 1 should always alternate with elements of arrays 2
i.e the result should look like
AB23CD00
AB24CD01
AB23CD02

Any help is appreciated.
JAK

Code:

$ cat merge
#! /usr/bin/ksh

set -A Array1 AB23 AB24
set -A Array2 DC00 CD01 CD02
count=0
i1=0
i2=0
while (( count < ${#Array1[*]} || count < ${#Array2[*]})) ; do
        echo ${Array1[i1]}${Array2[i2]}
        ((count=count+1))
        ((i1=(i1+1)%${#Array1[*]}))
        ((i2=(i2+1)%${#Array2[*]}))
done
exit 0
$ ./merge
AB23DC00
AB24CD01
AB23CD02
$

Thanks a bunch. I will give it a try

I have another question

i defined an array which is suppose to hold arrays
set -A pttrnArrays

I am also putting arrays in this array
something like
pttrnArrays[ctr]=${pttrnArray[*]}

I want to now retreive an array from pttrnArrays

Can i do something like
set -A Array1
Array1=${pttrnArrays[0]}

i tried this and it does not seem to work

Please let me know

data="AB23 AB24"
set -A Array1 $data

seems to work. Maybe you can use something like that.

Array1=${pttrnArrays[0]}

is just missing an index. It is supposed to work just like

Array1[0]=${pttrnArrays[0]}

Thanks, i tried set -A Array1 $(print ${pttrnArrays[0]}) and it worked