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07-15-2006

jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline

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Code:

IFS=:
echo "$string1" | read arr1[1] arr1[2] arr1[3]
echo "$string2" | read arr2[1] arr2[2] arr2[3]
IFS=" "

Or use the bash initializer

Code:

arr1=( `echo "$string1" | tr -s ':' ' '` )