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

I know this is kind of old question, but I thought maybe someone like my trick. Especially since this solution not limited to a specific number of items.

# Convert to an array
_ITEMS=($(echo "12|23|11" | tr '|' '\n'))

# Output array items
for _ITEM in "${_ITEMS[@]}"; do
  echo "Item: ${_ITEM}"
done

The output will be:

Item: 12
Item: 23
Item: 11