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Old 01-31-2008
udiptya udiptya is offline
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Question Help required on Shell Programming!

I have a file named "file1" with contents as shown below:

name(abc) age(123)
empid(a123) degree(graduate)
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Now suppose I know that the format of my file is as above but I don't know the contents within () ie. as if the file to me is like this
name(???), age(???) etc. How do I extract the contents within () and store it in a variable?
Please help me if possible with a sample code!