In a Bash script I would like to split a line into pieces and store them in an array.
The line:
Paris, France, Europe
I would like
Sometimes it happened to me that the method described in the accepted answer didn't work, especially if the separator is a carriage return.
In those cases I solved in this way:
string='first line
second line
third line'
oldIFS="$IFS"
IFS='
'
IFS=${IFS:0:1} # this is useful to format your code with tabs
lines=( $string )
IFS="$oldIFS"
for line in "${lines[@]}"
do
echo "--> $line"
done