Get the index of a value in a Bash array

Question

I have something in bash like

myArray=(\'red\' \'orange\' \'green\')

And I would like to do something like

echo ${         


        

Answer 1

This will do it:

#!/bin/bash

my_array=(red orange green)
value='green'

for i in "${!my_array[@]}"; do
   if [[ "${my_array[$i]}" = "${value}" ]]; then
       echo "${i}";
   fi
done

Obviously, if you turn this into a function (e.g. get_index() ) - you can make it generic