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Old 05-16-2008
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This is not particularly newbie-friendly, but a common shell scripting idiom.

Code:
oldifs=IFS
IFS=,
set -- $variable
hs1=$1
hs2=$2
hs3=$3
hs4=$4
IFS=$oldifs
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