Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends,
I am new to shell scripting. I am writting a script where i am reading word by word from a file . sometimes i need to retrieve only the subset of the word. for example:

suppose ",table2.col2,tableone.column1," is the string.

1>I just want to know the command which will give me "table2" and "tableone" as output.(all substrings which falls between a comma(first) and a dot)

thanks in advance

Hi

Code:

$ echo ",table2.col2,tableone.column1," | awk -F[,.] '{print $2}'
table2

@guruprasadpr : thanks for your reply. But i want a command which gives me all substring which falls between a comma(first) and a dot.
here it is: table2 and tableone .. thanks in advance

Code:

 
$ echo ",table2.col2,tableone.column1," | nawk -F, '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/\./){split($i,a,".");print a[1]}}}'
table2
tableone

Code:

sed 's/,\([^.]*\)./ \1 /g' infile | awk '{print $1,$3}'

Code:

echo ",table2.col2,tableone.column1," | perl -lne 'print $1 while (/,(.+?)\./g)'