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Old 03-06-2012
Unable to get substring from a string in perl
Hello friends,

I have one string "Absoulte_Markup_XYZ.xml" . I am trying to get XYZ in a variable but not able to Smilie
Here please note that "XYZ" can be "XYZABC" or "XYZPQR"...i mean to say its length is variable. I hope you got my point.

I tried with
> `grep <Above String> | cut -f2 -d.`
Result=Absoulte_Markup_XYZ
but not sure how to go further to get XYZ.

Please help me out...
# 2  
Old 03-06-2012
Does the below suffice your requirement ?
Code:
Result=$(echo "Absoulte_Markup_XYZ.xml" | cut -d "." -f1 | awk -F "_" '{print $NF}')

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harpal singh
# 3  
Old 03-06-2012
Thanks a lot ... Smilie it worked...Smilie
# 4  
Old 03-06-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by harpal singh
...
I have one string "Absoulte_Markup_XYZ.xml" . I am trying to get XYZ in a variable but not able to
Here please note that "XYZ" can be "XYZABC" or "XYZPQR"...i mean to say its length is variable. ...
Code:
$
$
$ str="Absoulte_Markup_XYZ.xml"
$
$ echo $str | perl -plne 's/^.*_(.*?)\..*$/$1/'
XYZ
$
$
$ str="Absoulte_Markup_XYZABC.xml"
$
$ echo $str | perl -plne 's/^.*_(.*?)\..*$/$1/'
XYZABC
$
$
$ str="Absoulte_Markup_XYZPQR.xml"
$
$ echo $str | perl -plne 's/^.*_(.*?)\..*$/$1/'
XYZPQR
$
$

tyler_durden

---------- Post updated at 01:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:04 PM ----------

Code:
$
$ echo $str
Absoulte_Markup_XYZPQR.xml
$
$ echo $str | cut -d_ -f3 | cut -d\. -f1
XYZPQR
$
$ echo $str | awk '{split($0,x,"[_.]"); print x[3]}'
XYZPQR
$
$

tyler_durden
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