How to read variables from stdin dynamically and store them into an array

Question

The problem is to read variables with read command dynamically from a read command in bash without knowing how many they are in advance and store them into an array .

I tested with :

read -p "array : " array[{0..#}]    

as

read -p "array : " array[{0..3}]

works

But with no success .

Answer 1

From the read usage output you can actually use the -a flag.

read -p "array: " -a array