How to find the string which is starting with some letters and having numbers from 4th position?


 
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# 1  
Old 03-19-2020
How to find the string which is starting with some letters and having numbers from 4th position?

How to find the string which is starting with ROS and having numbers from 4th position
For example: I have strings as below
Code:
string1 :ROSE543
string2 :ROS543
string3 :ROS54SQD
string4 :ROSEFLOWER
string5 :FLOWERROSE

here i have to know the string starts with ROS and from 4th position to till the end (n numbers) it having only numbers.
Note: these strings will be passed as a variable and i'm using ksh.

Result should be: ROS543 (because it is starting with ROS and from 4th position to end having only numbers)

Can someone help me to get this result?
Thanks in advance!!!

Last edited by Yoda; 04-03-2020 at 10:37 AM..
# 2  
Old 03-19-2020
What ksh version do you have?

man ksh93 :
Quote:
string =~ ere
True if string matches the pattern ~(E)ere where ere is an extended regular expression.


Try
Code:
[[ $string2 =~ ROS[0-9]*$ ]] && echo OK || echo NOK
OK

# 3  
Old 03-19-2020
Of course it is

Code:
[[ $string2 =~ ROS[0-9]+$ ]] && echo OK || echo NOK

Minimum one digit.
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# 4  
Old 03-31-2020
Thanks for the answer :-)



I tried the below code and got error.
CODE :

a=sss2345
set -x
if [[ ( $a =~ sss[0-9]*$ ) ]]; then
echo "4th position is num"
else
echo "4th position is not num"
fi




ERROR : Syntax error at line 3 : `=~' is not expected.



ERROR:
Syntax error at line 3 : `=~' is not expected.
# 5  
Old 04-02-2020
Looks like your shell version doesn't provide that construct. What is it?
# 6  
Old 04-02-2020
Obviously ksh88 - that knows [[ ]] but not its =~ operator.
Is it possible to use bash instead?
# 7  
Old 04-03-2020
In ksh88 (and bash) you can emulate
Code:
f [[ ( $a =~ sss[0-9]*$ ) ]]

with
Code:
if [[ $a == *sss* ]] && [[ ${a##*sss} != *[!0-9]* ]]

And
Code:
f [[ ( $a =~ ^sss[0-9]*$ ) ]]

with
Code:
if [[ $a == sss* ]] && [[ ${a#sss} != *[!0-9]* ]]

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