Need to split a variable and store it in array

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when i'm trying to access data from XML file by using following cmd its giving data from all matching tag

What I have tried:

$ path="$(echo "cat /config/SourceFolder/FileSetFolder/Path/text()" | xmllint --nocdata --shell real.xml | sed '1d;$d')"

output= rep ------- zip ------- mnt ------- mnt ------- 952230

I need to store each file type in output in to array. Please do the needful

expected output path=(rep,zip,mnt,mnt,952230) as array

Posted 4-Apr-18 20:39pm

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Updated 5-Apr-18 0:30am

Richard MacCutchan

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2018-04-05T00:32:00

You can use a for loop to split the string at white spaces and ignore the "-------" matches:

Bash

#!/bin/bash

data="rep ------- zip ------- mnt ------- mnt ------- 952230"

declare -a arr
count=0
for i in $data; do
    if [ "$i" != "-------" ]; then
        arr[count]=$i
        count=$count+1
    fi
done
# Print the array content
echo ${arr[*]}

Note that I have used $data as variable name because $PATH is a predefined bash variable.