How to split a delimited string into an array in awk?

Question

How to split the string when it contains pipe symbols | in it. I want to split them to be in array.

I tried

echo \"12:23:11\" | awk \'{s         


        

Answer 1

echo "12|23|11" | awk '{split($0,a,"|"); print a[3] a[2] a[1]}'

should work.