From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Some qusestions
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:40:27 -0600
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Nils van den Heuvel wrote:
> And how do cut this string into little pieces:
> 
> set ultrasnd=220,1,1,11,5
> (it's an environment variable)
> 
> i want to get these pieces:
> 220
> 1
> 1
> 11
> 5
> 
> in a variable of their own....
> Can someone help me with this?

you can use strspn to parse the string.

  -- Sinan