gistfile1.txt

DEPS=$(echo $1 | cut -d "=" -f 2) # DEPS is a comma-separated list of strings.

1)
IFS="|"
STRING="foo|bar|baz"
set array $STRING
print ${array[0]}
print ${array[1]}
print ${array[2]}


2)
sentence="one;two;three"
sentence=${sentence//;/$'\n'}  # change the semicolons to white space
for word in $sentence
do
  echo "$word"
done


3)
for i in $(echo $TESTSTR | tr ',' '\n')
do
  echo $i
done

4)
for i in ${DEPS//,/ }
do
  echo "$i"
done


5)
IFS=';' read -ra VALUES <<< "$DEPS"
## To pritn all values
for i in "${VALUES[@]}"; do
  echo $i
done


6)
while [ -n "${DEPS}" ]
do
  echo ${DEPS%%;*}
  DEPS=${DEPS#*;}
done

7)
for str in ${DEPS//;/ } ; do
  echo "+ \"$str\""
done