[ale] I am an idiot

[Chris Fowler]

#!/bin/ksh
#
STRING="hello|goodbye"


VAR1=`echo $STRING | cut -d'\|' -f1`
VAR2=`echo $STRING | cut -d'\|' -f2`


#END






-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lynn [mailto:jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:03 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] I am an idiot



Now that that's out of the way... here's my problem.


#!/bin/ksh
#
echo AARGH!
exit 0


I need some way to do some basic string manipulation that works both for 
Linux and Solaris (out of the box).  I basically need to take a string like 
"hello|goodbye" and split that string into two components, hello and goodbye 
(assign them to shell variables, etc.) by a delimeter such as '|'.  I 
thought everything was going well when I used expr to do just that.  No 
problems in Linux.  It appears, though, that functions like substr, length, 
etc are NOT supported in sparc Solaris.  So I looked into awk and sed (for 
the first time), which only served to piss me off even more.  Can anyone 
help me with this one?


Thanks in advance,
Jason
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