Re: [zsh] Extracting Informations from strings

[Vincent Stemen <zsh@hightek.org>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:24:16AM +0300, Artur Penttinen wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Stefan [iso-8859-1] Reich?r wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:02:44 +0200
> > From: "Stefan [iso-8859-1] Reich?r" <xsteve@riic.at>
> > To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
> > Subject: [zsh] Extracting Informations from strings
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I want to parse the output from acpi:
> >   Battery 1: charging, 95%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.
> >
> > I want to extract the "95%" from the output above.
> >
> > How can I achieve this from within zsh?
> 
>   # print "Battery 1: charging, 95%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge." |  cut -d, -f2
>    95%
>   #
> 
> -- 
> artur penttinen

You can also do this directly without calling cut.

output="Battery 1: charging, 95%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge."

output=${${=output}[4]}     # Split $output and extract the 4th field
print ${output%,}           # Remove the comma

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