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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Splitting text string with "|" pipe delimiters Post 302426804 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 3rd of June 2010 02:52:53 AM
Old 06-03-2010
From a file you can use:
Code:
while IFS='|' read O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 O7 O8; do
  echo "Field O1 is $O1" 
  echo "Field O2 is $O2"
done<listing.txt

From a string you can use:
Code:
string="CUSTNAME|hostname|userid|gecos field|staff|disabled||SUDO"
IFS='|' read O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 O7 O8 <<EOF
$string
EOF

or in bash/ksh93:
Code:
IFS='|' read O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 O7 O8 <<<"$string"



---------- Post updated at 08:52 ---------- Previous update was at 08:45 ----------

In ksh93/bash you can also use arrays, like so:
Code:
 IFS='|' O=( $string )

Code:
$ echo ${O[4]}
staff
$ echo ${O[0]}
CUSTNAME

 

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mail::field::date

Mail::Field::Date(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Mail::Field::Date(3)

NAME

       Mail::Field::Date - a date header field

INHERITANCE

	Mail::Field::Date
	  is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

	 use HTTP::Date 'time2iso';
	 my $field = Mail::Field->new(Date => time2iso());

DESCRIPTION

       Represents one "Date" header field.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Field::Date->combine(FIELDS)
	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Date->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])
	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Date->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])
	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

   "Fake" constructors
       $obj->create(OPTIONS)
	   See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->parse()
	   See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

   Accessors
       $obj->set(OPTIONS)
	    -Option --Default
	     Time     undef
	     TimeStr  undef

	   Time => SECONDS
	   TimeStr => STRING
	     A string acceptable to Date::Parse.

       $obj->stringify()
	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->tag()
       Mail::Field::Date->tag()
	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
       $obj->text([STRING])
	   See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->time([TIME])
	   Query (or change) the TIME (as stored in the field) in seconds.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
	   Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.  Apparently, the mehod called is not implemented for the specific
	   class of the field object.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.

       Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>.  Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>.  Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
       <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>.  For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.16.3							    2012-12-21						      Mail::Field::Date(3)
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