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Old 02-02-2009
Or to stay with my example:
Since you have the counter $c already, you can just use this to check how many elements are in the array. Due to the spaces in the elements #array will give a wrong value.

Code:
#fill the array:
c=0; while read line; do array[c]=`echo "$line"`; let c=$c+1; done < infile

#print the array elements:
x=0; while (( $x < $c )); do echo ${array[$x]}; let x=$x+1; done
Real Name:Thomas A Username:THOMAS_A
Real Name:Thomas B Username:THOMAS_B
Real Name:Thomas C Username:THOMAS_C
Real Name:Thomas D Username:THOMAS_D
Real Name:Thomas E Username:THOMAS_E

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Old 02-02-2009
Thank you kindly Zazzon and Quirk!
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