Split string into induvidual variables

[Trancemission]

I am looking to split a sentance up into induvidual variables for each word. Ie I have a file like below:

CustomerA 4
CustomerB 5
CustomerC 6

The fields are seperated by tabs.

I am lookup to take a line and get the two variables. Example for 1st line:

$1 = CustomerA
$2 = 4

I have been puling my hair out all day trying to get this to work so help will be appricated.

Marcus

 

[crowe]

how are you "taking a line" ? Is this STND input or reading this from a file?

crowe

 

[aigles]

ksh

while read V1 V2
do
printf "V1='%s' V2='%s'\n",V1,V2
done # if lines are read from file, add <file

 

[toolkit]

Or:

awk '{ print $1, $2 }'

Cheers, Neil