How to iterate over text file having multiple-words-per-line using shell script?

Question

I know how to iterate over lines of text when the text file has contents as below:

abc  
pqr  
xyz

However, what if the contents of my text fil

Answer 1

If the delimiter is a space then you can do:

#!/bin/bash

ALLVALUES=()
while read line
do
    ALLVALUES+=( $line )
done < "/path/to/your/file"

So after, you can just reference an element by ${ALLVALUES[0]} or ${ALLVALUES[1]} etc