What's wrong with this piping in bash

Backend Development
1

Hi!
i’m trying to pipe an echo to three variables ,but all the values are assigned to the first variable only and the rest are empty , iv’e done this before so i don’t understand why its not working now

echo "$CHECK_USERS" | while read GAMES_PLAYED BAR BEST_GAME
do
  echo "Welcome back, $USERNAME! You have played $GAMES_PLAYED games, and your best game took $BEST_GAME guesses."
  echo "Guess the secret number between 1 and 1000:"
  read GUSSED_NUM
done

the output is : ( Welcome back, k! You have played 1|8 games, and your best game took guesses. )

i’ve checked $GAMES_PLAYED and it’s value is ( 1|8 ) $BAR and $BEST_GAME are empty .

2

I believe you have to separate it with spaces: 1|8 should be 1 | 8

The easiest way is to pipe it into a sed and use regex before you pipe it into a new variable… try something like

echo "$CHECK_USERS" | sed 's/|/ | /g' | while read GAMES_PLAYED BAR BEST_GAME

I hope that works!