Hi folks!

I need to get an ip address of a string that has the same apperance in every case. The string looks like this:

$node="node_ip:109.50.89.211; node:j20"

What I want to do is to extract the IP-address from this string using regular expression. Since I havn't worked much with regexp's I dont really know how to tackle this.

However, if one is able to extract ip from the pattern:
[0-9]{1-3 digits}.[0-9]{1-3 digits}.[0-9]{1-3 digits}.[0-9]{1-3 digits}
somehow...

Does any of you know how to do this?

Try out this...

node="node_ip:109.50.89.211; node:j20"

echo $node|awk -F";" '{print $1}'|awk -F":" '{print $2}'

$ echo '$node="node_ip:109.50.89.211; node:j20"' | perl -pe 's/^.*node_ip:(\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3});.*$/$1/'  
109.50.89.211

Thanks a lot for a quick reply!

This works really well, and I said that the string looks the same in each cases but thats not entierly true.. for some cases is is changed so that node_ip and node is switched. And then this code prints out j20 instead.


I tried laborating with the sed command instead to get it more dynamic.

sh-3.00$ echo $node | sed 's/[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}//'

prints out: node_ip:; node:j20

With sed:

node="node_ip:109.50.89.211; node:j20"

echo "$node"|sed 's/.*:\(.*\);.*/\1/'

A regular expression can be written lax, potentially matching unexpected data, or can be written strictly, matching only exact data. The key is to know what your data looks like and describe it accurately.

Thanks for reply,

But as i said earlier this does not work if you change order of node_ip and node. i.e string looks like this:
"node:j20; node_ip:109.50.89.211"