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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:37:18 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap
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> 	if "$2" == "(Yo" then {
>	 	print sprintf("Yo was %f", yo)
>		 yo = sh { echo $3 | sed 's/\)#//' }
>		 print sprintf("Yo is %f", yo)
>	}

Not sure I get the twists and turns of your shell, which one are you using
as I assume the subtle details are important here - is it bash? also who's grap
is this, is it plan9's or some unix/linux?

My take on the same parsing problem is:

	larch% echo '(Yo 4.9524)' | awk '{print $2+0}'
	4.9524

I don't know if this helps (probably not).

-Steve