Replace Character Occurences 1

[Michael42]

Hello,

In a Bourne shell script I have a list of items delimited by a comma and I would like to change this, setting it to a variable, to be delimited by spaces.

In other words, I want to convert all the commas to spaces in the list and set this to a variable.

TABLES1="a,b,c,d"
TABLES2="[b]<same list a TABLES1 but delimited by spaces>[/b]"

What can you advise?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[feherke]

Hi

[gray]# bash & ksh, not sure about sh[/gray]
TABLES2="${TABLES1//,/ }"

[gray]# any shell[/gray]
TABLES2=`echo "$TABLES1" | tr ',' ' '`

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Michael42]

feherke,

P-E-R-F-E-C-T!

Thanks for posting,

Michael42