I have this string stored in a variable:
IN="bla@some.com;john@home.com"
Now I would like to split the strings by ;
delimiter so that I have:
ADDR1="bla@some.com"
ADDR2="john@home.com"
I don't necessarily need the ADDR1
and ADDR2
variables. If they are elements of an array that's even better.
After suggestions from the answers below, I ended up with the following which is what I was after:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
IN="bla@some.com;john@home.com"
mails=$(echo $IN | tr ";" "\n")
for addr in $mails
do
echo "> [$addr]"
done
Output:
> [bla@some.com]
> [john@home.com]
There was a solution involving setting Internal_field_separator (IFS) to ;
. I am not sure what happened with that answer, how do you reset IFS
back to default?
RE: IFS
solution, I tried this and it works, I keep the old IFS
and then restore it:
IN="bla@some.com;john@home.com"
OIFS=$IFS
IFS=';'
mails2=$IN
for x in $mails2
do
echo "> [$x]"
done
IFS=$OIFS
BTW, when I tried
mails2=($IN)
I only got the first string when printing it in loop, without brackets around $IN
it works.
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