Re: parsing a string

[John Aspinall <jgaspinall@rcn.com>]

dave@dpomeroy.com wrote:
> I'm new to bash and am trying to write a script that puts 3 substrings in 3
> variables.  I have a string with password,firstname,lastname. and I need it to
> be in 3 variables.

I'm just an apprentice here, but I think "cut" is a good choice of tool.

$ echo 'password,firstname,lastname' | cut -d',' -f1
password
$ echo 'password,firstname,lastname' | cut -d',' -f2
firstname
$ echo 'password,firstname,lastname' | cut -d',' -f3
lastname

-d is the field delimiter, -f says which fields you want

John

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