To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest version of the Korn shell (referred to as “korn93”) supports associative arrays.

If you have CDE installed, you should have ksh93 available as /usr/dt/bin/dtksh. Using Associative Arrays in the Korn Shell and Perl (08/17/2006) Using Indexed Arrays in the Korn Shell (08/10/2006) ...