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OK This one has me stumped. I have the following line,
program name - the program description that can also contain a hyphen - character.

I'm need to separate the "program name" from the program description.

I've tried using an array function with the - as delimiter, but I ran into a problem when I discovered some of the files I'm handling contain this second hyphen.

Using this code results in output that's out of order:

Code:

    split(s, array1, "-")
    for (i in array1) {
      print "ARRAY "i": " array1[i]
    }

Output:

Code:

ARRAY 2:  the program description that can also contain a hyphen 
ARRAY 3:  character.
ARRAY 1: program name

I use the array1[1] no problem, but how do I use the 2+ arrays?

I'm open to alternate methods for splitting this line of text.