I've parsed STDIN down to and array whose elements are "name=value" (looks like cgi because it is). I know how to do this in perl but want to do it in Linux. Here's what perl does:
$contents{$name} = ${value}
This sets the literal value in name as a variable containing the value value: i.e.; age=30
I want to use array[n]'s name as the variable name and set it equal to the arrays value element.