Unix parsing pipe delimited format string in ksh

Question

I am writing ksh script to parse a pipe delimited string

export dummy=\"abc\"  
echo \"123|456|789\" | awk \'{split($0,output,\"|\"); print output[3] output[2] o         


        

Answer 1

The shell can do it:

line="123|456|789"
IFS='|' read a b c < 789