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Old 12-13-2013
sed expression-help cutting name
Hi,

I have some sample names. The regions in red are what I want to extract.

Code:
AIB13-positive
AIB13-blank
AIB13-1116-0022999
GNX13-1521-0003532

Each of the sample names are represented as variable ${SAMPLE} within a loop. I've tried extracting the middle region with the following code (and many other things), but I can't seem to get it to cut. What needs be fixed?

Code:
DOMAIN=`echo ${SAMPLE} | sed -e 's#\w\w\w\d\d\-(.*)\-.*#1#g'`;

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-13-2013 at 01:29 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 12-13-2013
Try:
Code:
awk -F- '{print $2}'

or
Code:
cut -d- -f2

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Old 12-13-2013
worked. awesome. thanks.
 
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