bash: Indexed array and associative array.

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Take into account the main readme for this section. README first.

Index array, the array is indexed by numbers.

$ declare -a garden=(roses buttercup iris)
$ echo "${garden[0]}"
roses
$ echo "${garden[1]}"
buttercup
$ echo "${garden[2]}"
iris

Associative array, the array is indexed by any string.

$ declare -A my_garden=([flower1]=roses [flower2]=buttercup [flower3]=iris)
$ echo "${my_garden[flower1]}"
roses
$ echo "${my_garden[flower2]}"
buttercup
$ echo "${my_garden[flower3]}"
iris