[SOLVED] Bash - Arrays and Delimeters

[djscribble]

Greetings,

I am working on a script and am having problems changing the delimeter that bash is using for arrays. Here is my sample/experiment script:

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#!/bin/bash
IFS='|'
array=(one two|three four)
echo ${array[0]}
echo ${array[1]}

Here is the output:

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./test: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
./test: line 3: `array=(one two|three four)'

Any thoughts on how i might be able to make this work?

thanks!

[easy target]

bash thinks that | is a pipe (or else...). You have to surround it with "".

Example code:

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#!/bin/bash
str="one two|three four"

tmp=$IFS
IFS="|"
declare -a array=($str)
IFS=$tmp

echo ${array[0]}
echo ${array[1]}

[djscribble]

works great -- THANKS!!!