awk split string code example

Example 1: awk '(split function)

Just use function split in awk command to split a line into an array 'a'
using a choosen string as delimiter as for example ", " in next use case:
echo "hi, bye, hey" | awk '{split($0,a,", "); print a[3],a[2],a[1]}'

Example 2: awk split each character

echo "here is a string" | awk '
{ 
  split($0, chars, "")
  for (i=1; i <= length($0); i++) {
    printf("%s\n", chars[i])
  }
}'