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Old 10-11-2007
split varibles and store fields into shell varible array

I need to split a long varible which is a whole line read from a file into fields and store them in an array, the fields are delimited by pipe and a field may contain white spaces.

I tried the following concept test and it has problem with field 5 which contain a space, appearently so because "set -A" treats the space as a field delimiter.

Is there any other better way that the script can receive awk output and store them in an array with white spaces perserved?

TIA.


#!/bin/ksh

var="word1#word2|word3/word4|word5.word6|word7_word8|word9 word10|word11|word12"

set -A varray `echo "$var"| awk '{z=split($0,flds,"|")
for(i=1;i<=z;i++)
print flds[i]}'`

echo ${varray[0]}
echo ${varray[1]}
echo ${varray[2]}
echo ${varray[3]}
echo ${varray[4]}
echo ${varray[5]}
echo ${varray[6]}

---------
script output:

$test_read.ksh
word1#word2
word3/word4
word5.word6
word7_word8
word9
word10
word11
 

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DPKG-AWK(1)						      General Commands Manual						       DPKG-AWK(1)

NAME
dpkg-awk - Utility to read a dpkg style db file SYNOPSIS
dpkg-awk [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ... -- <out_fieldname> .. DESCRIPTION
dpkg-awk Parses a dpkg status file (or other similarly formatted file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field values to limit the returned records, it can also be told which fields to output, and it can sort the matched fields. OPTIONS
-f filename --file filename The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status. -d [#] --debug [#] Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level. -s field(s) --sort field(s) A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on. -n field(s) --numeric field(s) A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value. -rs ?? --rec_sep ?? Output this string at the end of each output paragraph. -h --help Display some help. fieldname The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive. out_fieldname The fields from the file, that are output for each record. If the first field listed begins with ^, then the list of fields that follows will NOT be output. BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro- gram. This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on your own. This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg. AUTHOR
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> DEBIAN
Debian Utilities DPKG-AWK(1)
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