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using sed to display message

Adi_7 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:01:36 GMT

I want to grab the numbers from this string.
java version "1.1.6"
How do I do that?
Thanks.

Thierry Poels_1 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:06:50 GMT

hi,

num=(echo $string | cut -d" " -f3)
or
num=(echo $string | cut -c14- )

regards,
Thierry.

Helen French — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:09:53 GMT

# echo java version "1.1.6" | awk '{print$3}'

curt larson_1 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:14:22 GMT

do you want the double quotes too?
if not
print $string | sed 's/[^"]*\"$[0-9.]$.*/\1/
or
print $sting | awk -F\" '{print $2;}'

Graham Cameron_1 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 03:18:50 GMT

Why not use the -F option to tell awk to deliit with quotes...

echo 'java version "1.1.6"'|awk -F\" '{print $2}'

-- Graham

Laurent Menase — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:04:37 GMT

Hi,

In ksh or posix sh

b=${string#*\"}
echo ${b%\"*}