Manipulating an array (printed by php-cli) in shell script

Question

I am a newbie with shell scripts and I learnt a lot today. This is an extension to this question Assigning values printed by PHP CLI to shell variables

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Answer 1

With bash4, you can use mapfile to populate an array and process substitution to feed it:

mapfile -t array < <( your_command )

Then you can go through the array with:

for line in "${array[@]}"

Or use indices:

for i in "${#array[@]}"
do
   : use "${array[i]}"
done