how to assign file names to array variable?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I wish to assign file names with particular extention to array variables. For example if there are 5 files with .dat extention in /home/sam then i have to assign these 5 files to an array.

plz help me how to accomplish this.
Thanks in advance.

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#! /bin/bash
i=0
for x in /home/sam/*.dat
do
    arr[$i]=$x
    i=$(($i+1))
done
echo ${arr[@]}
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Hello Bala ,

In addition to your solution , i would like to add the increment part of index , can also be done below .

((i+=1))
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4

Or just ((i++))

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5

Or just use:

FILES=( /home/sam/*.dat )
echo "${FILES[@]}"