How To get the data from a tag in XML File - Shell Programming and Scripting

Christoph Spohr · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008

Hi,

i would try to extract the emails directly. For me this works with your sample:

Code:

email=($(grep -o "[0-9A-Za-z]\+@[0-9A-Za-z]\+\.[A-Za-z]\{2,3\}" file))

This writes all patterns, and only these patterns, matching the regexp
into the array email.

Code:

echo ${#email[0]}

Will give you the length of the first element. Without the "#" it will give
you the entry at position 0.

HTH Chris