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Old 04-01-2013
Extracting a string from html tag
Hi

I am new to string extractions in shell script... I am trying to extract a string such as #1753 from html tag looks like below.

Code:
<a class="model-link tl-tr" href="lastSuccessfulBuild/">Last successful build (#1753), 40 min ago</a>

and want the value as

Code:
1753

Could someone help me to do this? Thank you very much for your kind attention in advance.

/h
Last edited by hicharbo; 04-01-2013 at 07:05 PM..
# 2  
Old 04-01-2013
Using parameter substitution on any POSIX shell:
Code:
str='<a class="model-link tl-tr" href="lastSuccessfulBuild/">Last successful build (#1753), 40 min ago</a>'
str="${str##*(#}"
echo "${str%%)*}"

Using awk program:
Code:
echo "<a class="model-link tl-tr" href="lastSuccessfulBuild/">Last successful build (#1753), 40 min ago</a>" | awk '{gsub(/.*\(#|\).*/,x)}1'

# 3  
Old 04-01-2013
Using sed
Code:
sed 's/.*(#\([0-9]*\)).*/\1/g' input_file

--ahamed
# 4  
Old 04-02-2013
I guess the input file do contain more than this single line. Here is how I would do it.

Code:
awk -F"#|)" '/lastSuccessfulBuild/ {print $2}' infile
1753

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