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

Simple solution:

my_array=(red orange green)
echo ${my_array[*]} | tr ' ' '\n' | awk '/green/ {print NR-1}'