Re: Splitting in shell (bash)

In article <vgo225$91aq$1@news.xmission.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
...

First note/caveat: I'm not interested in any solution involving IFS, for
two reasons:
   1) IFS-based solutions never work for me.
   2) Changing IFS is inherently dangerous, because, well, IFS itself in
inherently dangerous.  Yes, I know it has been somewhat de-fanged
recently - but it is still dangerous.

...

This works well, with a couple of caveats:
>
mapfile -td ';' <<< "$foo"
>
Caveats:
   1) You can only have one, single character delimiter.  It'd be nice if
you could have a reg-exp, like in GAWK.
   2) If the output you're processing comes from a process, as is usually
the case, special care must be taken:
>
mapfile -td ';' < <(someprocess | awk 1 ORS=)

It occured to me after posting this that a somewhat simpler approach would
be to just convert all the delimiters to newlines, like this:

mapfile -t < <(someprocess | sed 's/;/\n/g')

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