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Search for a string in string
Thank you all who contributed to the solution! The code of <Ygor> did what I needed. Also I would like to thank <vgersh> for the valuable help!- Sarah1977
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Search for a string in string
Hi Vlad, Is there really no way to stop at ",DA1="?? The reason why I need to capture that value is because I need to replace some special characters by their Decimal value (This functionality is already tested and working). but this means that the Field value can contain anything (@,;.etc)...- Sarah1977
- Post #11
- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Search for a string in string
Hi Vlad, What is wrong with this script? FILENAME="NU1=001,TX4=Test.Test,Test,DA1=23-11-2003,VID=R0001,FID=00002.001" FIELD1=",TX4=" FIELD2=",DA1=" FIELDVALUE='echo "$FILENAME" | sed -e '/"$FIELD1"/s/.*"$FIELD1"\([^"$FIELD2"][^"$FIELD2"]*\).*/\1/g' echo "$FILENAME" echo "$FIELD1" echo...- Sarah1977
- Post #9
- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Search for a string in string
Hi Guys, Nice atmosphere here! a little tuning required. With the code of <vgersh99> I get more then I require. I get "teststring,Unix.scripting" and I should only get "Unix.scripting". A better alternative to me would be that you explain what these complex sed command arguments do, but a...- Sarah1977
- Post #7
- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Search for a string in string
could somebody please let me know how to find a string inside a string? I'm trying to do the following: InputString= "teststring,MSG1=Unix.scripting,MSG2=teststring.ext" SubString = string between ",MSG1=" and ",MSG2=" = in this example = "Unix.scripting" I really don't find a way to extract...- Sarah1977
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