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

If you need parameter expansion, then try:

eval "arr=($line)"

For example, take the following code.

line='a b "c d" "*" *'
eval "arr=($line)"
for s in "${arr[@]}"; do 
    echo "$s"
done

If the current directory contained the files a.txt, b.txt and c.txt, then executing the code would produce the following output.

a
b
c d
*
a.txt
b.txt
c.txt