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I've got a file with strings and base64 encoded data over multiple lines, that are sepearated by a comma.

Example: 

1,meV9ivU4PqEKNpo5Q2u2U0h9owUn4Y8CF83TTjUNWTRQs7dEgVxnsMgf4lvg9kvxcIaM3yB4Ssim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=,U2FsdGVkX1/c8rTTO41zVT7gB+KL+n7KoNCgM3vfchOyuvBngdXDGjXTvXTK0jz6

Now, I'd like to split the content into an array, so that each multi-line string is an array element.

I tried to use IFS, but that only reads the first line:

filecontent=$(cat myfile)
IFS=',' read -a myarray <<< "$filecontent"

Result:

$myarray[0] = 1 
$myarray[1] = meV9ivU4PqEKNpo5Q2u2U0h9owUn4Y8CF83TTjUNWTRQs7dEgVxnsMgf4lvg9kvxcIaM3yB4Ssim

Expected:

$myarray[0] = 1
$myarray[2] = meV9ivU4PqEKNpo5Q2u2U0h9owUn4Y8CF83TTjUNWTRQs7dEgVxnsMgf4lvg9kvxcIaM3yB4Ssim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=
$myarray[2] = U2FsdGVkX1/c8rTTO41zVT7gB+KL+n7KoNCgM3vfchOyuvBngdXDGjXTvXTK0jz6

Could someone help me out here?

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AFAIK, read only reads up to a newline; you may be able to get it to work the way you expect by explicitly setting the delimiter to the null character i.e. IFS=',' read -d '' -a myarray ... – steeldriver Feb 3 at 20:57
    
Thanks, that did it! – Yoda Feb 3 at 20:59
    
You may want to look into the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language for your extraction and reporting needs.... – Wildcard Feb 3 at 21:06
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Did you try newline on IFS like IFS=$'\n' read -a myarray <<< "$filecontent"

The reason I am suggesting $'\n' is because bash doesn't interpret escape sequences in string literals.

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I'm assuming that in your expected result, the first instance of $myarray[2] should have been $myarray[1].

You can achieve the desired result by stripping the embedded newlines before assinging the file's content to the shell variable:

filecontent=$(tr -d \\n <myfile)
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