Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

[Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de>]

On 7/14/20 2:52 PM, 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"
> )
>
>    I can't make awk or tr work in the way I need and all examples I
> have found use only one character.
>
>    Is it possible to do such things in bash?
>
>    lbrtchx

Please share the solution you tried.

Since you anyway use tools like awk or tr, here is the perl code:

echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | perl -F'\\\|' -lanE 'say 
"\"".$_."\"" for @F'

Best,
Alex