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    split(s, array1, "-")
    for (i in array1) {
      print "ARRAY "i": " array1[i]
    }

ARRAY 2:  the program description that can also contain a hyphen 
ARRAY 3:  character.
ARRAY 1: program name

> cat file143
program 1 - program to do this
program 2 - program to do that - and the other
program 3 - program to do nothing
program 4 - program that wishes - it would do something
> sed 's/-/~/' file143 | awk -F"~" '{print "Program="$1"and info="$2}'
Program=program 1 and info= program to do this
Program=program 2 and info= program to do that - and the other
Program=program 3 and info= program to do nothing
Program=program 4 and info= program that wishes - it would do something

    sub(/-/,"~",s)
    split(s, array1, "~")