Reading a delimited string into an array in Bash

Question

I have a variable which contains a space-delimited string:

line=\"1 1.50 string\"

I want to split that string with space as a delimiter and

Answer 1

In: arr=( $line ). The "split" comes associated with "glob".
Wildcards (*,? and []) will be expanded to matching filenames.

The correct solution is only slightly more complex:

IFS=' ' read -a arr <<< "$line"

No globbing problem; the split character is set in $IFS, variables quoted.