On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 11:33 -0500, Bernard Fay wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have long strings to parse which have permanent and variable
> information. Somewhere in the strings we have something like "....
> Handle: 0x12a7 ....". Handle is permanent and 0x12a7 is variable. I
> wish to be able to extract the variable part (0x12a7) and assign it to
> a variable.
>
I'dd use Perl.... I love Perl.... and I don't know any other language
appropriate for this :)
j...@squeeje:~$ cat string.txt
foo bar abc 123 Handle: 0x12a7 some more things
zoo zar Handle: 0x12a7 and more stuff
j...@squeeje:~$ cat string.txt | perl -e 'while (<>) {if (/Handle:\s+(\S
+)/){$line++; $your_variable = $1; print "$line $your_variable\n"; }};'
1 0x12a7
2 0x12a7
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to extract this information?
>
>
> I think awk might be the tool to use but I not too good at it yet.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bernard
>
>
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