Probably very stupid script/bash question

[Brian <Brian_dorling@t-online.de>]

Hi,

I tried using bash to split a string. This works OK:

echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F;  echo "Data received = $E Bytes"; }

The following does not (the value is empty):

echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; }
echo "Data received = $E Bytes"  <--- $E is empty

I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in 
a subshell.

So how can I extract the parts I want into variables to use them later 
on in the script?

Thanks in advance

Cheers Brian