Bash scripting question

10 Aug 2006

      Hi All,

I have the following script fragment:

tags=( $( vorbiscomment "$1") )
 for tag in $(seq 0 $((${#tags[@]} - 1)))
  do
  echo ${tags[$tag]}
  done

which should extract the comments from the filename in $1 into the array 
$tags. So far so good. Unfortunately I find that the input is split up at 
spaces and line breaks, meaning that multi-word tags get distributed across 
more than one array element. Is there a way to get the assignment statement 
to break the vorbiscomment at line breaks only, or do I need to write a 
routine to put the broken lines back together?

Thanks,

Dylan

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