BASH - How to extract data from a column in CSV file and put it in an array?

Question

I am learning to script in Bash.

I have a CSV file with 5 columns and 22 rows. I am interested in taking the data from the second column and put it into an array.

Answer 1

i like to use awk. First split based on , delimiter and take required column values into array.

abc=($(tail -n +1 MyAssignment.csv | awk -F ',' '{print $2;}'))
echo ${abc[1]}

Index start from 1. If the file contains headers, replace +1 with +2 to ignore headers.