How do I split a string on a delimiter in Bash?

Question

I have this string stored in a variable:

IN=\"bla@some.com;john@home.com\"

Now I would like to split the strings by ; delimite

Answer 1

IN="bla@some.com;john@home.com"
IFS=';'
read -a IN_arr <<< "${IN}"
for entry in "${IN_arr[@]}"
do
    echo $entry
done

Output

bla@some.com
john@home.com

System : Ubuntu 12.04.1