How to mark an array in POSIX sh?

Question

While replacing external commands in a shell script, I used an array to get rid of awk\'s NF.

Now, since I moved from bash to POSIX sh, I cannot get the

Answer 1

You can use the following project from Github, which implements a POSIX-compliant array, which works in all shells I tried: https://github.com/makefu/array

It is not very convenient to use, but I found it to work well for my purposes.