1BEGIN { 2 s = "Volume 8, Numbers 1-2 / January 1971" 3 n = split(s, parts, "[^-A-Za-z0-9]+") 4 print "n =", n 5 for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) 6 printf("s[%d] = \"%s\"\n", i, parts[i]) 7} 8