How do I create n variables in shell scripts without explicitly assigning them?

  What I mean is something like a loop that creates var1, var2, var3,...,varx, where x is a variable I set earlier, something like:

read x

for ((a=0;a<x;++a)); do
 variable$a=${RANDOM}
done

(Let's ignore the possibility that x might be a string for now :D)

But obviously, this doesn't work. How would one do this?

What I actually want to do, is that each argument I wrote in the command line when I executed the script to become it's own variable ARG1, ARG2... ARGn with ${1}, ${2},..., ${n} as it's value, so there will only be as many of these variables, as arguments were set.

Hope you guys understand what I mean :D Thanks.

How do I create n variables in shell scripts without explicitly assigning them? What I mean is something like a loop that creates var1, var2, var3,...,varx, where x is a variable I set earlier, something like:

read x

for ((a=0;a<x;++a)); do
 variable$a=${RANDOM}
done

(Let's ignore the possibility that x might be a string for now. But obviously, this doesn't work. How would one do this?

What I actually want to do, is that each argument I wrote in the command line when I executed the script to become it's own variable ARG1, ARG2... ARGn with ${1}, ${2},..., ${n} as its value, so there will only be as many of these variables, as arguments were set.