yea well it does wonders, however was looking for a way without spawning externals like gawk.. maybe in future there will be =)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 2:02 AM Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmb...@gmail.com> writes: > > there is way to crop data to wanted, by cropping the exclulsions away > > but what about a way to extract data, eg @( .. ) match > > not about using [[ =~ but only var internal stuff > > .. or do i miss there something > > If you want to do a pattern-match against a string, then extract a part > of it, a common way is to use sed. For instance, to extract a word and > remove spaces before and after it: > > $ STRING=' abc def ' > $ WORD="$( <<<$STRING sed -e 's/^ *\([^ ]*\) *$/\1/' )" > $ echo "$WORD" > > It is common to use common Unix utilities to modify data items within > shell scripts. > > Dale >
