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Old 06-23-2010
Question Assign words in a string to array
I have a string as "yes why not"

I want to create one array variable with contents as one word per place in array..

for above string,the array variable should contain...

x="yes,why,not"

x[0] = yes
x[1] = why
x[2] = not

Please help me,I am stuck up in the problem since 2 days...
# 2  
Old 06-23-2010
Code:
# a="yes why not"

Code:
# array=($a)

Code:
#echo ${array[1]}
why
# echo ${array[0]}
yes
# echo ${array[2]}
not

# 3  
Old 06-23-2010
Hi, try with:

Code:
cadena="hola que tal"
i=0
for cad in $cadena
do
   arrcad[$i]=$cad
   i=$(($i+1))
done

echo ${arrcad[0]}
echo ${arrcad[1]}
echo ${arrcad[2]}

# 4  
Old 06-23-2010
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