string processor and array tool for the upstream building feature im about to add to my compile.sh

upstream-processing.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function checkIfElementIsBlank () {
  test ! -z ${1}
}

# quick awk lesson
# ============================================================================================
# when using awk as a splitter, you will do awk '{print $#};', where # is the index number
#  0: entire string AFTER any proceeding formatting
#  1: first element in the string
#  2: second element in the string
# ... so on and so forth.
# ============================================================================================

function getKey () {
  echo ${1//','/ } | awk '{print $1};'
}

function getValue () {
  echo ${1//','/ } | awk '{print $2};'
}

s="
OpenAuth,/home/pirogoeth/OpenAuth;
OpenEconomy,/home/pirogoeth/OpenEconomy;"

s=${s//$'\n'/}
s=${s//";"/ }

array=( ${s} )

for (( i=0; $i<${#array[@]}; i++ ))
  do
    checkIfElementIsBlank ${array[$i]}
    echo "BLANK: $?"
    echo "KEY: $(getKey ${array[$i]}), VALUE: $(getValue ${array[$i]})"
    echo "Exporting.."
    export "$(getKey ${array[$i]})"="$(getValue ${array[$i]})"
  done

upstream=( "OpenAuth" "OpenEconomy" )
for (( i=0; $i<${#upstream[@]}; i++ ))
  do
    echo ${!upstream[$i]}
  done

# yay for indirect references!