separating comma delimited words

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I have file with text

________________________________
GROUP:firstname1.lastname1,first_name2.last_name2,first_name3.last_name3
HEAD:firstname.lastname
________________________________

I need help to pick the names separately ie..

Need out put
as
var1 =firstname1.lastname1
Var2=first_name2.last_name2
..
var n=firstname.lastname

or keep them in a array
array[names]

Please help

2

for ENTRY in `grep -i group <file> | cut -f2 -d: | tr ',' '\012'`; do echo $ENTRY; done

replace "echo $ENTRY" by whatever suits ur needs, e.g.

ARRAY[$INDEX]=${ENTRY}
((INDEX=${INDEX}+1))

3 
line=GROUP:firstname1.lastname1,first_name2.last_name2,first_name3.last_name3
data=${line#GROUP:}
IFS=, read -a array <<.        ## Bash; use -A for ksh
$data
.
4

perl:

my @arr;
open FH,"<a.txt";
while(<FH>){
  chomp;
  my @tmp=split("[:,]",$_);
  @arr=(@arr,@tmp[1..$#tmp]);
}
print join "\n", @arr;
5

I have a small problem, Instead of text file, I have the text coming as an o/p of an other script i.e something similar to

for ENTRY in `/workspace/script3.sh "$arg1" |grep -i  group |
 cut -f2 -d: | tr ',' '\012'`;

but I don't see the same result as the original code. Please can you correct me?