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

You must declare your array before use with

declare -A myArray
myArray=([red]=1 [orange]=2 [green]=3)
echo ${myArray['orange']}