Read fields of a string into an array

Let’s assume that the field separator is :

var='1:2:3:4:
newline'
arr=()
while IFS= read -d : -r field || [ -n "$field" ]; do
   arr+=("$field")
done <<< "$var"
echo "${arr[4]}"

Output:

newline

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