Shell Programming and Scripting

I am in the process of creating a BASH shell scripts for a project at work. So the scenario is as such:

I have a file with each line entry separated by ':'

Code:

testaccount:D#%G%^V&:MeMyselfandI:memyselfandi@somesite.com:11/242012:192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3,192.168.1.4,192.168.1.5:$1360.

In parsing these strings, The only data that I need as of right now is only the row of ip address which is always the second to the last field of the line. I can successfully create my array using:

Code:

test_array=( $( cat wspasswd| awk -F ':' '/^testaccount/ {print $(NF-1)  }' ) )

which produces:

Code:

echo ${#test_array[@]}
192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3,192.168.1.4,192.168.1.5

which is exactly what I want except I noticed that it is putting all of the results in only "1" index

so:

Code:

echo ${#test_array[@]}
1
echo ${test_array[0]}
192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3,192.168.1.4,192.168.1.5

I need each one of these ip address to go into its own index, so for example:

Code:

echo ${#test_array[@]}
5
echo ${test_array[0]}
192.168.1.1
echo ${test_array[1]}
192.168.1.2
and so forth

What am I missing?

Closing } ?

In unix Shell scripting all opening brackets must have a matching closing bracket.

Set IFS="," before doing that and it should split upon , instead of space.

Be sure to return IFS to its original value after since that affects all shell splitting.

Sorry that was a typo. That did the trick. I am angry at myself becaused I was using this before but totally forgot to use it during testing from the cli.