How to write input values ​​to variables?

Question

bash

Hello. I have a piece of script:

#elif [ "$a" == more ]; then 
  read -p "Number of ports: " select
    for (( i = 0; i < $select; i++ )); do
      read -p "Input ports: " input
    done

The user enters a certain number into the select variable.
I need to ask the user for the port number as many times as he specified in select, and add his answers to variables.
How to implement it?

Answer 1

read -p "Number of ports: "

for (( i = 0; i < $REPLY; i++ ))
do
    read -p "Input port: " ports[i]
done

echo ${ports[@]}