John:
>echo ===========Loop 1==============
>declare -a RULES
>i=0
>j=4
>INFILE="/tmp/junkfile"
>RULES=(`cat $INFILE`)
>echo RULES ARRAY ${RULES[*]}
Thanks for the attempt, but the above doesn't work as expected. That was the first thing I tried early on.
Here's a working example of your suggestion and the output for anyone else interested:
#!/bin/bash
# Create a test file to read
cat >/tmp/junkfile <<-"CODE"
line 1
line 2
line 3
CODE
RRRRR=($(cat /tmp/junkfile))
echo RRRRR has ${#RRRRR[*]} elements. ${RRRRR[*]}
for ((i=0; i<${#RRRRR[*]}; ++i)); do
echo "RRRRR[$i]=->${RRRRR[$i]}<-"
done
rm /tmp/junkfile
This splits the words per line of input as individual array elements instead of taking the line as a whole as one array element. Three lines now become six array elements because there are 6 "words". There is no way to know which array elements represent any given line and white space between words is completely gone..
i.e.
RRRRR has 6 elements. line 1 line 2 line 3
RRRRR[0]=->line<-
RRRRR[1]=->1<-
RRRRR[2]=->line<-
RRRRR[3]=->2<-
RRRRR[4]=->line<-
RRRRR[5]=->3<-
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