Does `dash` support `bash` style arrays?

dash-shell, linux

Solution

`dash` does not support arrays. You could try something like this:

var="this is a test|second test|the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
oldIFS=$IFS
IFS="|"
set -- $var
echo "$1"
echo "$2"
echo "$3"      # Note: if more than $9 you need curly braces e.g. "${10}"
IFS=$oldIFS

Note: Since the variable expansion `$var` is unquoted it gets split into fields according to `IFS`, which was set to a vertical bar. These fields become the parameters of the `set` command and as a result `$1` `$2` etc contain the sought after values.

`--` (end of options) is used so that no result of the variable expansion can be interpreted as an option to the set command.

Problem

In the `dash` shell environment I am looking to split a string into arrays. The following code works in `bash` but not in `dash`. ``` IFS="" var="this is a test|second test|the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" IFS="|" test=( $var ) echo ${test[0]} echo ${test[1]} echo ${test[2]} ``` My Question Does `dash` support arrays in this style. If not are there any suggestions for parsing this out into an another type of variable without the use of a loop?

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