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How to remove an array

Hi All,

How to remove the created array in Korn Shell?

For example:
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Set -A fruits apple orange grapes

Through this statement an array will be created with name fruits.
I want to remove this fruits array.
How can I do it?

Thanks in advance.

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Code:

unset fruits
# or reset the array to no data
set -A fruits

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