Practical Network Automation

Arrays

An array (or list in some scripting languages) is used to store a similar set of multiple values inside a single variable. This helps to ensure all data types with similar meanings are stored in a single variable, and also we can easily loop through these array objects to fetch the values stored in an array.

Consider the following example:

countries=["India","China","USA","UK"]for specific country in countries  Perform action

As we can see in the variable declaration, now we are declaring a similar data type with a similar context or meaning by grouping them together and assigning them into a single variable. In our example, it's the country names all assigned to an array variable named countries. In the next line, we are now iterating ...