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Re: Splitting $foo on delimiter value

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From: Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Allen Belk <allen.belk@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Splitting $foo on delimiter value
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:42:36 +0100
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Allen Belk wrote:

>     I am looking for the appropriate method of splitting a string at a set
> delimiter.
> 
> foo=red:white:blue
> 
> I want to seperate these into 3 fields much the way the unix cut command
> would as in:

Try using ${(s.:.)foo}. That should split it on colons.

If you want to write it in a way that is compatible with sh or ksh, you
can stick : in $IFS.

Oliver Kiddle

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