[CLUG] Script : split a string

[Donal Hunt]

The following URL probably covers what you want (has examples for perl, ksh,
sh):
http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/38450-split-string-using-separetor.html
Regards

Donal

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Jean-Pierre Thibert
<jpthibert at eircom.net>wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I'm still working not learning script.
> My problem is:
>
> I get a variable from wget like
> DATA="Eddy,Murphy,Cork,125,95.41"
> String with comma separator
>
> I need to split every fields like
> FIRST_NAME="Eddy"
> NAME="Murphy"
> CITY="Cork"
> RUN=125
> AVERAGE=95.41
>
> What I learned so far let me think that script is file oriented, but I
> would like to use memory variables instead.
> I tried to use awk and I wrote
>
> awk -v INPUT=$DATA 'BEGIN { n = split(INPUT, parts, ",")}'
>
> As you can see INPUT passe the string into the "function" by value (I don't
> know if it's the good english expression). But is it a real function?
> parts is an array with the differents fields. The function works fine.
> print parts[1] works fine inside the function.
> My problem is I can't find out how to get the array out of the function.
> Any idea?
>
> But maybe there is another easier way to do that ????
>
> By the way, what is the usual way to write the variables, functions etc...
>  names? Capital? Lowercase? other?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre
>
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