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Variable print problem

Hi,
I'm facing some problem with printing the values in the variables

I have passed all the database values into the variable, but when i echo the variable i get the values printed in one line

Code:

var=`echo <query> | database`
echo $var
or 
awk 'BEGIN {printf("%s\n","'"${var}"'")}'

this prints

Code:

table1 <value> table2 <value> table3 <value> table4 <value>

But the above needs to be printed as

Code:

table1 <value>
table2 <value>
table3 <value> and so on

Can anyone please help me

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