On 7/14/20 8:52 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
I have a string delimited by two characters: "\|"
_S=" 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc "
which then I need to turn into a array looking like:
_S_AR=(
" 34 + 45"
" abc"
" 1 2 3"
" c"
"123abc"
)
Try:
echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | tr -d '\\' | awk 'BEGIN { FS="|"
} { printf " _S_AR=(\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n)\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5}'
All one line.
First tr deletes the backslash leaving the pipe for a field separator in awk.
You could also use tr -s '\\\|' '\|' to guarantee that you only work on the \|
combination in case there are other backslashes not followed by a pipe.
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*...Bob*
