Array of arrays in bash

Question

I\'m attempting to read an input file line by line which contains fields delimited by periods. I want to put them into an array of arrays so I can loop through them later on

Answer 1

Field nest box in bash but it can not circumvent see the example.

#!/bin/bash

# requires bash 4 or later; on macOS, /bin/bash is version 3.x,
# so need to install bash 4 or 5 using e.g. https://brew.sh

declare -a pages

pages[0]='domain.de;de;https'
pages[1]='domain.fr;fr;http'

for page in "${pages[@]}"
do
    # turn e.g. 'domain.de;de;https' into
    # array ['domain.de', 'de', 'https']
    IFS=";" read -r -a arr <<< "${page}"

    site="${arr[0]}"
    lang="${arr[1]}"
    prot="${arr[2]}"
    echo "site : ${site}"
    echo "lang : ${lang}"
    echo "prot : ${prot}"
    echo
done