On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 11:01:17AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 9:37 PM wilson <i...@bigcount.xyz> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > in shell script, how can I use regex to extract values from a string? > > maybe value types transformation should be required. > > > > > > for instance the string: "black berry 12". > > I want go get the name: black berry [String] > > the price: 12 [Int] > > > > So you have programming language skills. Look at the info-command-based doc > for bash. Read the sections about shell pattern-matching operators. Realize > that there are more than one type of that. For example the crippled > filename pattern matching on many commands, not really regular expressions.
FWIW, bash has an =~ operator for regex matching whithin [[ ]]. There are even special variables to pick up the capturing matches. Not portable, but arrays (which have been warmly recommended around here) aren't, either. Cheers -- t
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