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# 8  
Old 12-18-2014
This may be a bashism:
Code:
for str in 81UV78UV183UV89800  8U1UVV78UUV18UU3UV89800; do echo "${str//UV/$'\n'}"; done
81
78
183
89800
8U1
V78U
18UU3
89800

# 9  
Old 12-18-2014
Thank you to all of you for share your solutions. The issue is the data is stored in arrays as I showed in first post. I showed strings to represent what is the content of the array. Because of that I was using combination of loops and if statements.

Thanks again.
# 10  
Old 12-18-2014
OK, with array a from your first post, try
Code:
A=${a[@]}
A=${A// /}
echo "${A//UV/$'\n'}"
81
78
183
89800

# 11  
Old 12-18-2014
Hi RudiC,

It works just fine either and very short code, nice!

Many thanks again.
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