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01-27-2009

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assign colon delimited strings to variables

Man it has been too long since I have had to do this type of stuff...

OK I have a file with lines in it looking like this:
bob:johnson:email@email.com (most lines)

john:F.:doe:email2@email.com (but some are like this)

I need to loop through and assign vars to the values:

var Fname = bob
var Lname = johnson
var email = email@email.com

If there is a middle initial I want to toss it and move on and get the last name from the next (3rd) field.

I have tried this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

while read line
do
        Fname=`cut -d: -f1`
        Field2=`cut -d: -f2`
                if [ "$Field2" = "##" ]; then
                        Lname=`cut -d: -f3`
                else
                        Lname=$Field2
                fi

        echo -e  "First Name is :$Fname\n"
        echo -e  "Last Name is :$Lname\n"
done < test

BTW this code is tabbed to be easier to read but this board is taking them out of it for some reason...

Needless to say it isn't working or I would not be posting this....

I get this as an output for example:

First Name is :Linda
Wendy
Esther
Pamela
Richard
William
Leona
Anne
Elaine

Last Name is :

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by joeyg; 01-27-2009 at 03:38 PM.. Reason: Applied codetags to make easier to read

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