Re: String to array

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 01:04:08PM +0000, Leonid Isaev (ifax) 
(leonid.isaev@ifax.com) wrote:

> Something like [1]? Still a for-loop though:
> -----8<-----
> array=()
> while IFS= read -r -d '' -n 1 c; do
>       array+=( "$c" )
> done < <(printf "%s" "$string")
> ----->8-----
> 
> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/40833433

Yeah, that works, but as you say it's still a loop, and neither
simpler nor faster than the substring-based ones I posted.

I may have been unclear: the solutions I posted do work, this is not a
practical problem, I'm just curious to if there's a (reasonably)
simple way to do it without a loop.

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Tapani Tarvainen