title: Splitting string into array
body: <p>I want to split the string and construct the array. I tried the below code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myString="first column:second column:third column"
  set -A myArray `echo $myString | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{for (i=1; i&lt;=NF; i++) print $i}'`
  # Following is just to make sure that array is constructed properly
  i=0
  while [ $i -lt ${#myArray[@]} ]
  do
  echo "Element $i:${myArray[$i]}"
  (( i=i+1 ))
  done
  exit 0
  
  It produces the following result:
  Element 0:first
  Element 1:column
  Element 2:second
  Element 3:column
  Element 4:third
  Element 5:column
  
  This is not what I want it to be. When I construct the array, I want that array to contain only three elements.
  Element 0:first column
  Element 1:second column
  Element 2:third column
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can you please advise?</p>