Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi!

I need to do the following:

(1) I wan't to extract a line of a textfile (defined by a numer) and store it into a variable...

(2) ...but I want to cut out a part of the line which is between two tokens and store just this to the variable

Example:
BlaBlaBla Bla2Bla2Bla2 *pPointerOne;
--> So only the Text between '*' and ';' ('pPointerOne') should be stored in the Variable

This is a bit too much for me! Please help!

Code:

echo "BlaBlaBla Bla2Bla2Bla2 *pPointerOne;" | cut -d '*' -f2 | cut -d ';' -f1

Is this what u need ?

Code:

my $str="BlaBlaBla Bla2Bla2Bla2 *pPointerOne;";
  if($str=~/[a-z0-9]+\s+\*([a-z A-Z]+)\;/)
  {
      print $1;
  }

Give that line as a input for the following sed expression,

Code:

result=`sed -r "s/^.*(\*.+;)$/\1/g" <<<"BlaBlaBla Bla2Bla2Bla2 *pPointerOne;"`
echo $result

OK, with your help I go this:

line1=`sed -ne 5p ./Buttons | cut -d '*' -f2 | cut -d ';' -f1`

What I need now, is to replace the '5' by a variable ($couter2)... I don't know how to do this, have problems with the format... Just inserting $counter2 doesn't work... How do I have to do this???

./Buttons is the file where I get the lines from

line1 is the variable where is store the whole output to use later