extract string

[Ben Scott]

On 1/11/06, Zhao Peng <greenmt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Secondly I'm sorry for the big stir-up as to "homework problems" which
> flooded the list, since I'm origin of it.

  *Trust me*, that wasn't a "big" stir-up.  Search the list archives
for "taxes" if you want to see big ones.  The homework thread was even
more remarkable for being a debate we *haven't* had before ad nasueam.
 :)

> Kenny, your "grep univ abc.txt | cut -f3 -d, | sed s/\"//g >> dev.txt"
> works. I mis-read /\ as a simliar sign on the top of "6" key on the
> keyboard ...

  I was wondering if it might be a transcription error.  While shell
syntax and regular expressions are very powerful, they tend to be very
cryptic as well.  That's why I spelled out what each character was.

  The ^ character is called a "caret", by the way.

> I felt really embarrassed with my stupid mistake. //blush

  You think you were embarrassed?  There was a certain instance of
someone accidentally hitting "Reply to All" to a list message which is
still remembered to this day.  I won't mention any names because I
don't want to get any squeegees in trouble.  ;-)

-- Ben