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Old 11-12-2007
davewg davewg is offline
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Question Extract numbers from a string and store in variables
Hi All,

Is it possible in Unix shell script to extract numbers from a string containing ".", such as;

5.2.314

And store in variables so;

var1 = 5
var2 = 2
var3 = 314

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide

dave