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How can I take input from read, split the words up by spaces, and then put those words into an array?

What I want is:

$ read sentence
this is a sentence
$ echo $sentence[1]
this
$ echo $sentence[2]
is
(and so on...)

I'm using this to process english sentences for a text adventure.

How can I take input from read, split the words up by spaces, and then put those words into an array?

What I want is:

$ read sentence
this is a sentence
$ echo $sentence[1]
this
$ echo $sentence[2]
is
(and so on...)

I'm using this to process English sentences for a text adventure.

How can I take input from read and split the words up by spaces, and then put those words into an array?

What I want is:

$ read scentence
this is a senctence
$ echo $scentence[1]
this
$ echo $scentence[2]
is
(and so on...)

I'm using this to process english scentences for a text adventure.

How can I take input from read, split the words up by spaces, and then put those words into an array?

What I want is:

$ read sentence
this is a sentence
$ echo $sentence[1]
this
$ echo $sentence[2]
is
(and so on...)

I'm using this to process english sentences for a text adventure.