Arrays in unix shell?

Try this :

echo "Find the Largest Number and Smallest Number of a given number"
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "Enter the number"
read n
i=0

while [ $n -gt 0 ] #For Seperating digits and Stored into array "x"
do
        x[$i]=`expr $n % 10`
        n=`expr $n / 10`
        i=`expr $i + 1`
done

echo "Array values ${x[@]}"  # For displaying array elements


len=${#x[*]}  # it returns the array length


for (( i=0; i<len; i++ ))    # For Sorting array elements using Bubble sort
do
    for (( j=i+1; j<len;  j++ ))
    do
        if [ `echo "${x[$i]} > ${x[$j]}"|bc` ]
        then
                t=${x[$i]}
                t=${x[$i]}
                x[$i]=${x[$j]}
                x[$j]=$t
        fi
        done
done


echo "Array values ${x[*]}"  # Displaying of Sorted Array


for (( i=len-1; i>=0; i-- ))  # Form largest number
do
   a=`echo $a \* 10 + ${x[$i]}|bc`
done

echo "Largest Number is : $a"

l=$a  #Largest number

s=0
while [ $a -gt 0 ]  # Reversing of number, We get Smallest number
do
        r=`expr $a % 10`
        s=`echo "$s * 10 + $r"|bc`
        a=`expr $a / 10`
done
echo "Smallest Number is : $s" #Smallest Number

echo "Difference between Largest number and Smallest number"
echo "=========================================="
Diff=`expr $l - $s`
echo "Result is : $Diff"


echo "If you try it, We can get it"

There are multiple ways to create an array in shell.

ARR[0]="ABC"
ARR[1]="BCD"
echo ${ARR[*]}

${ARR[*]} prints all elements in the array.

Second way is:

ARR=("A" "B" "C" "D" 5 7 "J")
echo ${#ARR[@]}
echo ${ARR[0]}

${#ARR[@]} is used to count length of the array.

A Simple way :

arr=("sharlock"  "bomkesh"  "feluda" )  ##declare array

len=${#arr[*]}  #determine length of array

# iterate with for loop
for (( i=0; i<len; i++ ))
do
    echo ${arr[$i]}
done

In ksh you do it:

set -A array element1 element2 elementn

# view the first element
echo ${array[0]}

# Amount elements (You have to substitute 1)
echo ${#array[*]}

# show last element
echo ${array[ $(( ${#array[*]} - 1 )) ]}