shell script declare associative variables from array - bash

Question

I have array key-value pairs separated by space,
array=Name:"John" ID:"3234" Designation:"Engineer" Age:"32" Phone:"[phone]"
Now I want convert above array as associative variables like below,
declare -A newmap
newmap[Name]="John"
newmap[ID]="3234"
newmap[Designation]="Engineer"
newmap[Age]="32"
newmap[Phone]="[phone]"
echo ${newmap[Name]}
echo ${newmap[ID]}
echo ${newmap[Designation]}
echo ${newmap[Age]}
echo ${newmap[Phone]}
I'm able to get value for given key using file,
declare -A arr
while IFS='=' read -r k v; do
arr[$k]=$v;
done < "file.txt"
echo "${arr[name]}"
But I want to implement same functionality using array instead of file.

Answer 1

You can just use a sed to reformat input data before calling declare -A:
s='array=Name:"John" ID:"3234" Designation:"Engineer" Age:"32" Phone:"[phone]"'
declare -A "newmap=(
$(sed -E 's/" ([[:alpha:]])/" [\1/g; s/:"/]="/g' <<< "[${s#*=}")
)"
Then check output:
declare -p newmap
declare -A newmap=([ID]="3234" [Designation]="Engineer" [Age]="32" [Phone]="[phone]" [Name]="John" )

Answer 2

A version without eval:
array='Name:"John" ID:"3234" Designation:"Engineer" Age:"32" Phone:"[phone]"'
declare -A "newmap=($(perl -pe 's/(\w+):"/[\1]="/g' <<< "$array"))"
echo ${newmap[Phone]}
# output : [phone]

Answer 3

Working with the variable array that's been defined as follows:
$ array='Name:"John" ID:"3234" Designation:"Engineer" Age:"32" Phone:"[phone]"'
NOTES:
assuming no white space between the attribute, ':' and value
assuming there may be variable amount of white space between attribute/value pairs
assuming all values are wrapped in a pair of double quotes
And assuming the desire is to parse this string and store in an array named newmap ...
We can use sed to break our string into separate lines as such:
$ sed 's/" /"\n/g;s/:/ /g' <<< ${array}
Name "John"
ID "3234"
Designation "Engineer"
Age "32"
Phone "[phone]"
We can then feed this to a while loop to populate our array:
$ unset newmap
$ typeset -A newmap
$ while read -r k v
do
newmap[${k}]=${v//\"} # strip off the double quote wrapper
done < <(sed 's/" /"\n/g;s/:/ /g' <<< ${array})
$ typeset -p newmap
declare -A newmap=([ID]="3234" [Name]="John" [Phone]="[phone]" [Age]="32" [Designation]="Engineer" )
And applying the proposed (and slightly modified) echo statements:
$ (
echo "Name - ${newmap[Name]}"
echo "ID - ${newmap[ID]}"
echo "Designation - ${newmap[Designation]}"
echo "Age - ${newmap[Age]}"
echo "Phone - ${newmap[Phone]}"
)
Name - John
ID - 3234
Designation - Engineer
Age - 32
Phone - [phone]