parsing a user input string

daphne19 · 04-22-2004, 04:57 AM

Hi I've just got a question for scripting in bash shell.

I'm reading from a user a certain input A<"test"> B<"test2"> and i want to be able to pull out teh test bit of teh input based on the starting letter. So if "B" then get test2 out. Essentially its just string parsing and I can do it for command line input but im unsure of how to handle a read input.

Thanks for your help
daphne

jim mcnamara · 04-22-2004, 07:40 AM

I'm not clear on what you want other than a way to manipulate strings.

This page shows most of the ways bash provides to mess with strings.
Beyond that, you need awk.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/str...ipulation.html