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Old 10-11-2010
Substring in string with whitespaces
hello,

i have this string:
variable="1234 /PARAMETER_1:text /PARAMETER_2Smiliethertext"

i tried to do
expr match $variable '.*\([TER_1:[a-z]*\)'

but i keep getting expr error

i need to extract the word text...

thank you
# 2  
Old 10-11-2010
one way:

Code:
#  echo "1234 /PARAMETER_1:text /PARAMETER_2thertext" | sed 's/.*TER_1:\([a-z]*\).*/\1/'
text

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Old 10-11-2010
Thank you Tytalus!
# 4  
Old 10-11-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aloush89
hello,

i have this string:
Code:
variable="1234 /PARAMETER_1:text /PARAMETER_2:othertext"

i tried to do
Code:
expr match $variable '.*\([TER_1:[a-z]*\)'

but i keep getting expr error

i need to extract the word text...

thank you
updated.
Code:
variable="1234 /PARAMETER_1:text /PARAMETER_2:othertext"
echo $variable |awk -F":| " '{print $3}'

Last edited by rdcwayx; 10-11-2010 at 02:08 PM..
# 5  
Old 10-11-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdcwayx
Code:
variable="1234 /PARAMETER_1:text /PARAMETER_2:othertext"
echo $variable |awk -F "[ |:]" '{print $3}'

@rdcwayx

The "|" in the character class isn't use as an OR operator but as a fieldseparator:
Code:
awk -F"[ |:]"

The OR operator could be used like:
Code:
awk -F":| "

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