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23232321223,11100,N/A,Hey You There,N/A,N/A,Wed Jul 26 09:02:26 2006

#script to split it into an array
SPArray=( "${SPArray[@]}" `cat $dnNum"SPTest.txt" | cut -d, -f2`)
SPArray=( "${SPArray[@]}" `cat $dnNum"SPTest.txt" | cut -d, -f3`)
SPArray=( "${SPArray[@]}" `cat $dnNum"SPTest.txt" | cut -d, -f4`)
len=${#SPArray[*]}

#Displaying the contents of the array
i=0
while [ $i -lt $len ]; do
 echo "$i: ${SPArray[$i]}"
i=$((i+1))
done

{
x='23232321223,11100,N/A,Hey You There,N/A,N/A,Wed Jul 26 09:02:26 2006'
typeset IFS=,
set -A SParray $( print "${x}" )
set | grep SParray
}
SParray[0]=23232321223
SParray[1]=11100
SParray[2]=N/A
SParray[3]='Hey You There'
SParray[4]=N/A
SParray[5]=N/A
SParray[6]='Wed Jul 26 09:02:26 2006'