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

A bit more involved, but may be useful:

a='((c,3), (e,5))'
IFS='()'; for t in $a; do [ -n "$t" ] && { IFS=','; set -- $t; [ -n "$1" ] && echo i=$1 j=$2; }; done