Shell Programming and Scripting

echo 'chris martin 200173 845747 mech engineerchris' | 
sed -r 's/([^0-9]*)([0-9 ]*)([^0-9]*)/var1=\1\nvar2=\2\nvar3=\3/'

echo $var1 
echo $var2
echo $var3

echo "chris martin 200173 845747 mech engineerchris" | sed  's/\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9 ]*\)\([^0-9]*\)/var1=\1\nvar2=\2\nvar3=\3/'

var1=chris martin nvar2=200173 845747 nvar3=mech engineerchris

#!/bin/ksh

eval $(print "chris o'neil 200173 845747 mech engineer" | sed 's/\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9 ]*\)\([^0-9]*\)/var1="\1";var2="\2";var
3="\3"/')

## Kludgy way of getting rid of trailing space.  Should change
## the above sed command somehow.
var1=$(print $var1|sed 's/ $//')
var2=$(print $var2|sed 's/ $//')

print "[$var1]"
print "[$var2]"
print "[$var3]"

$ xyz
[chris o'neil]
[200173 845747]
[mech engineer]
$