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Re: how to get arguments in a function split according to certain delimiters?

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On Feb 27, 11:20 am, Paul Branon <paulbra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 27, 6:42 am, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> >  Selva <kobu.se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > bash-3.2$ set | grep IFS
> > > IFS=:
> > > bash-3.2$ echo jungles:of:brazil
> > > jungles:of:brazil
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> > > I want echo to get the arguments: 1=jungles, 2=of, 3=brazil
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> > foo=jungles:of:brazil
> > echo $foo
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> > Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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> Barry, what does that do? Doesn't it just echo "jungles:of:brazil"
> which is not what the op wants

I added quotes to Barry's suggestion and tripped myself up.
quotes, quotes, quotes!!!


IFS=:; foo="jungles:of:brazil"; echo $foo

and

IFS=:; foo="jungles:of:brazil"; echo "$foo"

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      Re: how to get arguments in a function split according to certain delimiters? "Mirko K." <mirkok.lists@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-27 13:35 +0100
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