Twix53791/string2array

Bash utility string to array with quote parsing

string2array

Bash utility string to array with quote parsing

USAGE

  string2array <option> "string"

examples

• toto="1 \"2 5\" 7 toto"; string2array -s "\"" $toto
• string2array -s "\[section\]" "1 2 [section]5 6 7 [section]"
• string2array -s "'" --any-sep "-o 'font_family=\"Iose'vka Term Extended\"' -o background_opacity=0.9"
• string2array -s "'" --only-sep "-o 'font_family=\"Iose'vka Term Extended\"' -o background_opacity=0.9"

The script returns the array elements parsed line by line. To use it to set an array inside a bash script:

mapfile myarray < <(string2array $string)

or

while read line; do 
    myarray+=("$line")
done < <(string2array -s "\"" $string)

INSTALLATION

Just copy the string2array file into /usr/local/bin or any bin PATH location you want.