Hi Chet, `help lcut` implies to me that columns specified -b or -c should go to separate elements of ARRAY (unlike what cut does), but they do not.
| 20:20:34$ lcut -a i -c1,2,3 abc | 20:30:13$ echo ${i[0]} | abc | 20:30:23$ echo ${i[1]} | | 20:30:42$ Cheers ... Duncan.