Split string with 0-2 / (or determine there's none) (Bash)

Update: Up to 2 "/" in the string. String structure is either: Character set name/LF Character set name/CRLF Character set name/CRLF/(unknown purpose, likely a number) Character set name Example: "UTF-8/CRLF" "UCS-2/CRLF/21" That is there may be only Character set name (unknown beforehand) without any "/" separator. Character set name may contain "-" and "_" (no need to separate here). Need to assign to: VAR1=Character set name VAR2=CRLF or LF part between 1st "/" and 2nd "/" (or empty string if there's no "/"). VAR3=Remainer after 2nd "/". Some kind of true/false (0/1) for VAR2 is OK also (it will be processed with if/else later in script). Tried cut -d/ -f, but cut -d/ -f 2 returns "Character set name" even **if there's no "/"**, so it doesn't work for me. For **Bash** script a **Faster** solution is preferred as it will be run many times. I do need to call a function as /bin/bash -c b/c its called in find -exec. Code (mostly based on Choroba's answer): #!/bin/bash shopt -s extglob function convert_single_text_file_to_utf8(){ CUR_FILE_ENCODING_WITH_CRLF=$1 echo "CUR_FILE_ENCODING_WITH_CRLF=${CUR_FILE_ENCODING_WITH_CRLF}" CUR_FILE_ENCODING_ONLY=${CUR_FILE_ENCODING_WITH_CRLF%%/*} # Remove everything starting from the last slash. LINE_FEED=${CUR_FILE_ENCODING_WITH_CRLF##$CUR_FILE_ENCODING_ONLY?(/)} # Remove the charset, followed by a slash if any. echo "CUR_FILE_ENCODING_ONLY=${CUR_FILE_ENCODING_ONLY} LINE_FEED=${LINE_FEED}" } export -f convert_single_text_file_to_utf8 for ENCODING in ASCII UTF-8/CRLF ISO-8859-2/LF EBCDIC-CA-FR; do echo "ENCODING=$ENCODING" export ENCODING /bin/bash -c 'shopt -s extglob; convert_single_text_file_to_utf8 "$ENCODING" ' done