Started working on converting the regular arrays into an associative array

build.sh

@@ -46,9 +46,19 @@ read_metadata() {
 }
 
 convert_to_array() {
-#	Converts the metadata into two arrays: one with the key, and the other with the value
+#	Converts the metadata into two arrays: one with the key, and the other with the value.
 	readarray -t meta_key < <(echo -e "$1" | awk -F: '{print $1}')
 	readarray -t meta_value < <(echo -e "$1" | awk -F: '{st = index($0,":"); values = substr($0,st+1); print values}' | cut -c 2-)
+
+#	Merge both arrays into an associative array
+	declare -A  meta_array
+	for index in $(seq 0 `expr "${#meta_key[@]}" - 1`); do
+		meta_array["${meta_key[$index]}"]="${meta_value[$index]}"
+	done
+
+#	for array_key in "${!meta_array[@]}"; do
+#		printf "[%s] = %s\n" "$array_key" "${meta_array[$array_key]}"
+#	done
 }
 
 add_date_to_array() {