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Old 05-31-2009
tough parsing
I have a string as "Period= 20090531 Client Name= Clayton Lumbar Company Destination= MD"

I want to parse the string and store it in 3 different variables.

$period (should get value 20090531)
$client (should get value "Clayton Lumbar company")
$dest (should get value MD)

How can I do this in a shell script command?
Last edited by paruthiveeran; 05-31-2009 at 04:02 PM..
# 2  
Old 06-01-2009
period=`cut -d"=" -f2 file.txt | cut -d " " -f2`
name=`cut -d"=" -f3 file.txt | cut -d " " -f 2,3`
dest=`cut -d"=" -f4 file.txt`

# echo $period
20090531
# echo $name
Clayton Lumbar
# echo $dest
MD

Smilie
# 3  
Old 06-01-2009
Code:
echo "Period= 20090531 Client Name= Clayton Lumbar Company Destination= MD" | awk '{
 gsub(/Period= |Client Name= |Destination= /,"|")
 m=split($0,a," ")
 print $0
}'

# 4  
Old 06-02-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostdog74
Code:
echo "Period= 20090531 Client Name= Clayton Lumbar Company Destination= MD" | awk '{
 gsub(/Period= |Client Name= |Destination= /,"|")
 m=split($0,a," ")
 print $0
}'

Thanks, it worked
 
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