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Reading Words separated by comma in line

Hi All,

I am facing issue, to read words in line, line as follow and i want to read word at each comma

1,you,are,two

So i want read like
1
you
are
two

Thanks

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If data is in a file:

Code:

tr ',' '\n' < file
1
you
are
two

If data is in a variable:

Code:

a='1,you,are,two'
echo "${a//,/$'\n'}"
1
you
are
two

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