Splitting up a line into fields. 2

[iaresean]

Hi all;

How would I split the following data into fields?

test.txt
sean;happy;dsafdsaf
sarah;sad;fdsadsaf
henry;lost;afdfdsff

I am trying a loop through the test.txt file and trying to process during each loop. Here is how far I have gotten:

infile = "test.txt"
while read value ; do
        ### Split variables here 
        
        ### Processing here
done < $infile

Thanks for any and all help.

Sean.

 

[mjuell]

??.. Your file is split into fields alredy..
with a ; seperator.


If u mean splitting it into 3 different files with 1 field in each u can use awk.

 

[iaresean]

Yes they are delimited by a ';' but how would I split them up into fields so that I can use them in my processing.

e.g split $line into fields (name message garbage)

Thank you.

Sean.

 

[Ygor]

You can set the internal field separator and just use read...
[tt]
IFS=\;
infile=test.txt
while read bingo bango bongo
do
echo 1st field: $bingo
echo 2nd field: $bango
echo 3rd field: $bongo
done < $infile
unset IFS
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[aigles]

You can also use the following syntax (tested with KSH only) :
[tt]
infile=test.txt
while IFS=';' read bingo bango bongo
do
echo 1st field: $bingo
echo 2nd field: $bango
echo 3rd field: $bongo
done < $infile
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Jean Pierre.

 

[Ygor]

Another variation :- allows you to reference the whole record line as well as the individual fields.
[tt]
infile=test.txt
while read line
do
echo Record: $line
echo $line | IFS=\; read bingo bango bongo
echo 1st field: $bingo
echo 2nd field: $bango
echo 3rd field: $bongo
done < $infile
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