Arrays in unix shell?

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The following code creates and prints an array of strings in shell:

#!/bin/bash
array=("A" "B" "ElementC" "ElementE")
for element in "${array[@]}"
do
    echo "$element"
done

echo
echo "Number of elements: ${#array[@]}"
echo
echo "${array[@]}"

Result:

A
B
ElementC
ElementE

Number of elements: 4

A B ElementC ElementE

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