Okay, but how do you know that those weird quirks won't be present in your data? Or what those weird quirks even are? The details of the stuff in that Stackover

Okay, but how do you know that those weird quirks won't be present in your data? Or what those weird quirks even are? The details of the stuff in that Stackoverflow comment have already fallen out of my head; I couldn't tell you about them now. With Bash there are so many traps and footguns and (subjective) unknown unknowns, it would keep me up at night worrying about it. There's always another maddening fact to discover. I would just use Python, where strings are sane and lists are sane: my_string.split(", "), boom, done, no jumpscares.