split string using separetor

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i have one string , I want to split that string.
exmp:

string="abc@hotmail.com;xyz@gmail.com;uvw@yahoo.com"

I want to split it and save it in three variable

str1=abc@hotmail.com 
str2=xyz@gmail.com
str3=uvw@yahoo.com

I want to split using ';' .

please help.

2 
echo $string |cut -d';' -f1 | read str1
echo $string |cut -d';' -f2 | read str2
echo $string |cut -d';' -f3 | read str3
3

thanx.....

it works...

4 
$str = "abc\@hotmail.com;xyz\@gmail.com;uvw\@yahoo.com";

@arr = split(/;/, $str);

print "first: $arr[0]\n";
print "second: $arr[1]\n";
print "third: $arr[2]\n";
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string="abc@hotmail.com;xyz@gmail.com;uvw@yahoo.com"
str1=${string%%;*}
str3=${string##*;}
temp=${string#$str1;}
str2=${temp#;$str3}
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6

matrixmadhan's solution is for perl script.
You can do the same thing with ksh :

#!/usr/bin/ksh

string="abc@hotmail.com;xyz@gmail.com;uvw@yahoo.com"

oIFS="$IFS"; IFS=';' 
set -A str $string
IFS="$oIFS"

echo "strings count = ${#str[@]}"
echo "first : ${str[0]}";
echo "second: ${str[1]}";
echo "third : ${str[2]}";

Output:

strings count = 3
first : abc@hotmail.com
second: xyz@gmail.com
third : uvw@yahoo.com

Jean-Pierre.

7 
string="abc@hotmail.com;xyz@gmail.com;uvw@yahoo.com"
var=$(echo $string | awk -F";" '{print $1,$2,$3}')   
set -- $var
echo $1
echo $2
echo $3

output:

# ./test.sh
abc@hotmail.com
xyz@gmail.com
uvw@yahoo.com
8

According to my experience, based on temp variable previous message str2 must be:

str2=${temp%%;*}

Have a nice working day

9

a problem occurs with "str2" solution

According to my experience, based on temp variable previous message str2 must be:

str2=${temp%%;*}

Have a nice working day

10

Hi,

What if you do not know how many sub-string will produce after split?

I want the last sub-string.

Actually I want to parse the tree structure of file system.

Input :-

/home/hello/temp1/temp2/temp3

Output :-

temp3

There might be less height of tree.

Could you guys please help me out to do this?

Thanks,
Saurabh

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#!/bin/ksh
a='/home/hello/temp1/temp2/temp3'
echo ${a##*/}