extract string

Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_clark at comcast.net
Wed Jan 11 10:07:01 EST 2006


Zhao Peng writes:

> ... your "grep univ abc.txt | cut -f3 -d, | sed s/\"//g >> dev.txt"
> works.

It "works" but is it correct?

What happens if you pass it the following line of input?:

  "Aunivz","28","Cambridge Community College"

By your original problem description, you don't want to see "Cambridge
Community College" but there it is.

I might have overlooked something, but I believe that I have only seen
two people post correct solutions so far.

Just something to think about.

Regards,

--kevin
-- 
(There are also also 228 babies named Unique during the 1990s alone,
and 1 each of Uneekm, Uneque, and Uneqqee.)

    -- _Freakonomics_, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner


[but no Unix folks named their kids "uniq", apparently.  --kevin]




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