Split Index and File Name from string?

[Moose On The Loose]

All these loops and extraneous use of echo, sed and cut... Bash makes this very simple:

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INDEX=${OUTSTR%%-*}
FILENAME=${OUTSTR#*-}

see "substring manipulation" in the advanced bash scripting guide.

Just as a BTW a trick I use fairly often is to make the thing I am working on contain spaces at key points and then do:

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MyFunctionName  $TheStringInQuestion

This way all the bits of the string come into the function as $1 ...

Inside the function I can then do all manner of stuff to the string. This is good when what you want to do is more complex than the example here because it makes it easier to document what is done.