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Old 02-23-2011
string tokenizing
I have a string that looks like this:
blahblahblah_^substring^_blahblahblah
I need to extract substring, the bit between the ^ characters, into another string variable. This will be in a bash shell script.

Thanks.
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Old 02-23-2011
Code:
echo "blahblahblah_^substring^_blahblahblah" | sed 's/.*_^\(.*\)^_.*/\1/'

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Old 02-23-2011
Code:
echo "$variable" | awk -F '^'  '{ print $2}'

You can also use parameter substitution.
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