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# 1  
Old 07-18-2008
Extracting data from a string containing &;
Smilie How can I exrtact the code HU52143N200401 from a string that contains >HU52143N200401<
# 2  
Old 07-18-2008
One way:
Code:
sed 's/.*;.*;\([^&]*\)&.*/\1/g'

# 3  
Old 07-18-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Using cut
Code:
> echo ">HU52143N200401<" | cut -d";" -f3 | cut -d"&" -f1
HU52143N200401

# 4  
Old 07-18-2008
That's unfair! Mine was looking more complicated! Smilie Smilie
# 5  
Old 07-18-2008
Code:
awk -F'[&|;]' '{print $4}'

# 6  
Old 07-18-2008
Well, in this case, with bash, zsh(with ^ instead of !) and ksh93:

Code:
% s='>HU52143N200401&lt'
% printf "%s\n" "${s//[!A-Z0-9]}"
HU52143N200401

# 7  
Old 07-18-2008
Or just tr Smilie
Code:
tr -d '[:punct:][a-z]'
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