Doubt on Array creation

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

Suppose partition=9
then by checking that partition variable value ,i need to create an array variable which must contain 9 values and must be repeative as a,b,g,h,a,b,g,h,a...

Could you please help me in creating as above way..

Thanks in Advance,
Mansa

2

Could you please help me in korn shell scripting.

3 
let cnt=0
for i in a b g h a b g h a b g h a b g h
do
   if [[ -z $partition  || $cnt -gt $partition ]] ; then
          break
   fi
   arr[$cnt]=$i
   cnt=$(( cnt = 1 ))   
done
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Thanks a lot Jim...