How to pass array as an argument to a function in Bash

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You cannot pass an array, you can only pass its elements (i.e. the expanded array).

#!/bin/bash
function f() {
    a=("$@")
    ((last_idx=${#a[@]} - 1))
    b=${a[last_idx]}
    unset a[last_idx]

    for i in "${a[@]}" ; do
        echo "$i"
    done
    echo "b: $b"
}

x=("one two" "LAST")
b='even more'

f "${x[@]}" "$b"
echo ===============
f "${x[*]}" "$b"

The other possibility would be to pass the array by name:

#!/bin/bash
function f() {
    name=$1[@]
    b=$2
    a=("${!name}")

    for i in "${a[@]}" ; do
        echo "$i"
    done
    echo "b: $b"
}

x=("one two" "LAST")
b='even more'

f x "$b"

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