Loop over tuples in bash?

Question

Is it possible to loop over tuples in bash?

As an example, it would be great if the following worked:

for (i,j) in ((c,3), (e,5)); do echo \"$i and $         


        

Answer 1

$ echo 'c,3;e,5;' | while IFS=',' read -d';' i j; do echo "$i and $j"; done
c and 3
e and 5