Re: String to array

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 03:10:54PM +0200, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev 
(fxmbsw7@gmail.com) wrote:
 
> you may get success accessing str via ${str:<position>:1}
> 
> s=ab34 i=-1 e=${#s} r= ; while (( n = ++i + 1 <= e )) ; do r+="pos $n char
> ${s:i:1}|" ; done ; printf %s\\n "${r%|}"
> 
> pos 1 char a|pos 1 char b|pos 1 char 3|pos 1 char 4
> 
> $n is a bug of 1 but you may get the point

Yes, well, that is basically same as the second one I posted:

> > array=()
> > i=0
> > while (( i < ${#string} ))
> > do
> >    array+=("${string:$((i++)):1}")
> > done

Nothing wrong in that, it works, I'm just for fun looking for
different solutions without an explicit loop.

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Tapani Tarvainen