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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to extract a certain part of a line Post 302534655 by rpf on Tuesday 28th of June 2011 11:29:24 AM
Old 06-28-2011
Is it possible to define a function that extracts the certain part of subsequent line when I copy the whole line after it. For example, when I type

rpf home/1245/hgdf/acsdf/myhome/afolder/H2O/endfile

output will be /myhome/afolder/H2O/endfile

can I define a function rpf like this ?
 

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Debian::L10n::Utils(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Debian::L10n::Utils(3pm)

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Debian::L10n::Utils - Utilities for the dl10n tools parse_subject(SUBJECT) parse_subject extract valuable informations from a subject line. It gets a string containing the subject line (SUBJECT). It returns an array containing the status, type, filename strings and bug number if provided or 'undef' if no status is found. parse_from(FROM) parse_from extract the sender name from the 'From:' field. The name is build from the phrase part of the field, or if none is found, from the comment part where parentheses are removed, or if none is found, from the address where all non-alphanumeric characters are turned into spaces. It gets a string containing the 'From:' field (FROM). It returns a string containing the name. parse_date(DATE) parse_date extract the date from a 'Date:' field. It gets a string containing the 'Date:' field (DATE). It returns a string containing the date in ISO format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss AXhh:mm based on GMT LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. COPYRIGHT (C) 2003,2004 Tim Dijkstra 2004 Nicolas Bertolissio 2004 Martin Quinson 2008 Nicolas FranA~Xois perl v5.14.2 2012-01-15 Debian::L10n::Utils(3pm)
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