Extract single or multi word string in Cshell

phudgens · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

I am using the following code:

set LASInputFile = `ls *.[Ll][Aa][Ss] | head -1`
set COMPLine = `grep -i :COMPANY $LASInputFile`

to extract the following line from my input file:

COMP. XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME

I now need to extract the full name of the company which may be a single word or multiple words separated by white space as in this example. I study awk and sed but I just can't figure out how to code for this.

Thanks,

Paul H.
Denver

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

Code:

echo 'COMP. XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME' | sed 's/.*:\(.*\)/\1/'
echo 'COMP. XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME' | awk -F: '{print $NF}'

phudgens · #3 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

Thanks for the help. In both cases, the code extracted the string: "COMPANY NAME". What I'm hoping to get is (in my example) "XYZ Public Company", or whatever (delimited or non-delimited) string appears between "COMP." and ":COMPANY NAME".

Thanks,

Paul H.

vgersh99 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

Code:

echo 'COMP. XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME' | sed 's/^[^ ][^ ]* *\([^:][^:]*\)[ ][ ]*:.*/\1/'

avronius · #5 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

This won't work?

Code:

awk -F: '{print $1}' file_with_list | awk -F. '{print $2}'

Franklin52 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

Another one with sed:

Code:

sed 's/COMP\. \(.*\) :COMPANY NAME/\1/'

Regards

cfajohnson · #7 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by avronius

This won't work?

Code:

awk -F: '{print $1}' file_with_list | awk -F. '{print $2}'

Why two calls to awk?
Code:
awk -F: '{ split($1,a,"."); print a[2] }' file_with_list

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