[ale] Thanks - and another Bash script question

[mhirsch at nubridges.com (Michael D. Hirsch)]

On Thursday 15 May 2003 12:06 pm, Bob Kruger wrote:
> Some of the fields that I want to capture will have spaces in them, so I
> can't go that way.
>
> I should have given a better example:
>
> ct=(chevelle,two tone,green and white,two door)
>
> where $ct[1] = chevelle , $ct[2]="two tone", $ct[3] = "green and white"
> , etc.

So I guess you translate space to something else first.  You probably need 
some escape code, like '\'.  Then you escape the escape code, turn sapces 
into excaped characters, then semicolons into spaces, read in the strings 
and reverse the translations.

Michael
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