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Old 05-22-2006
return a word between two words
how do i get a word that exists between two words

eg: this is bryan
My input to command would be this and bryan
and output should be 'is'

Is there a command i can use?
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Old 05-22-2006
awk <search pattern> {<program actions>}

http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html
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Old 05-22-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by bryan
how do i get a word that exists between two words

eg: this is bryan
My input to command would be this and bryan
and output should be 'is'

Is there a command i can use?

Code:
sed -n 's/word1[ ][ ]*\([^ ]*\)[ ][ ]*/\1/p'

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Old 05-22-2006
Try...
Code:
eg="eg: this is bryan"
w1="this"
w2="bryan"
result=$(echo $eg | awk -v w1="$w1" -v w2="$w2" 'match($0, w1 ".*" w2){
   print substr($0,RSTART+length(w1),RLENGTH-length(w1 w2))}')
echo $result

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Old 05-23-2006
Thanks Guys
 
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