Create env variables in a loop in bash not working - bash

Question

I have a set of properties, and I want to create env variables in bash. The format of the properties is like this:
CONFIG=$(curl -s "endpoint")
echo $CONFIG
property1: value1 property2: value2 property3: value3...
Then I apply a replace to get '='
CONFIG2=${CONFIG//: /=}
echo $CONFIG2
property1=value1 property2=value2 property3=value3...
And finally, applying a for loop I want to add those properties
for property in $CONFIG2; do env "$property"; done
I need to use env since my properties contains . characters, export doesn't work for me. For example: property.1.thisisanexample=value1
While executing the 'for', I can see that in each iteration it is adding the current property, but after it finish and I run env, they aren't there. Any idea of what is happening and how can this be done?

Answer 1

#1
Assuming your CONFIG variable has or gets the following string value:
CONFIG='property.1.thisisanexample: value1 property.2.thisisanexample: value2 property.3.thisisanexample: value:3'
Then you may create a CONFIG2 parameter like in below:
Note: This will substitute the colon+ space : characters with a =
CONFIG2=$(echo ${CONFIG//:\ /=} )
#!/bin/bash
CONFIG='property.1.thisisanexample: value1 property.2.thisisanexample: value2 property.3.thisisanexample: value:3'
CONFIG2=$(echo ${CONFIG//:\ /=} )
echo "${CONFIG2}"
Output:
property.1.thisisanexample=value1 property.2.thisisanexample=value2 property.3.thisisanexample=value:3
#2
Now if you want to use env with the properties you may do the following:
for property in ${CONFIG2} ; do
env ${property}
done