On 2020-07-16 15:17, Parrot Raiser wrote: > Perhaps with a grammar? > > On 7/16/20, Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote: >> An opportunity for Raku golfers to show off Raku on the Debian users list. >> >> Best regards, >> >> -Tom >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:52 >> Subject: delimiters with more than one character? ... >> To: Debian Users ML <debian-user@lists.debian.org> >> >> >> 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 >> A single quoted string: ' 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc '.split('\|').join(', '); returns: 34 + 45 , abc , 1 2 3 , c, 123abc A double quoted string interprets '\' so; " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc ".split('|').join(', ') returns: 34 + 45 , abc , 1 2 3 , c, 123abc spaces are still left in. The join is used to show the strings in the array a bit better. Regards, MarcelThread Previous