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Old 11-29-2011
How to extract a substring from a string
Hi,

I have an input string say for example:

ABC,DEF,IJK,LMN,...,XYZ

The above string is comma delimited. Now I have to extract the last part after the comma i.e. XYZ.

Smilie
# 2  
Old 11-29-2011
The AWK way:
Code:
# echo "ABC,DEF,IJK,LMN,...,XYZ" | awk -F"," '{print $NF}'
XYZ

=o)
Last edited by felipe.vinturin; 11-29-2011 at 12:03 PM..
# 3  
Old 11-29-2011
The Perl way:
Code:
echo "ABC,DEF,IJK,LMN,...,XYZ" | perl -e '@x=split/,/,<>; print $x[-1]'

# 4  
Old 11-29-2011
The SED way... Smilie
Code:
echo "ABC,DEF,IJK,LMN,...,XYZ" | sed 's/.*,\(.*\)$/\1/g'

--ahamed
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