I'm looking for someone to help me figure out how to accomplish a task with a shell script. I have the string variable TEXT containing the following:

TEXT=<TR><TD><INPUT TYPE=text NAME=Hour , SIZE="2" MAXLENGTH="2" VALUE="12"></TD>

(the line is an extract from a web page). Notice the part of the string that says VALUE="12"? I want to set another variable to the number in quotes. In other words, I'd like to figure out a way to extract the number after VALUE and set this number to a variable called HOUR. In this case, HOUR would equal 12.

Any ideas?
BS

Seems like you should be able to call sed to do it for you. If you're not familiar with sed, it a command-line text editor which allows you to edit text unseen, if you know the pattern to search for, and how to phrase the replacement text.

TEXT="<TR><TD><INPUT TYPE=text NAME=Hour , SIZE=\"2\" MAXLENGTH=\"2\" VALUE=\"12\"></TD>"
echo "TEXT $TEXT"
HOUR=`echo $TEXT | sed '1,$s/.*VALUE=\"//' | sed '1,$s/\">.*$//'`
echo "HOURS $HOUR"

Thank you very much. That worked perfectly!

BSS