Re: Problem with positional output

* SED Users <[email protected]> [2016-11-14 14:36]:
> On 2016-11-14 14:03:50 Michelle Konzack hacked into the keyboard:
> > ..I have forgotten ho to get values from a string...
> > The string has 4 parameters, seperated by the | sign
> > and I like to get it with something like
> >      echo "${RETVAL}" |sed 's!(.*)|(.*)|(.*)!$1!'
> This is now working with:
>    echo "${RETVAL}" |sed 's!\(.*\)|\(.*\)|\(.*\)!\1!'

hmm..
so you basically want just the bginning of the data
and discard everything from the first pipe sign?

here is what i'd do in z-shell:

  zsh> DATA='one|two|three|four'
  zsh> echo ${DATA%%|*}
  one

an example would be nice to see whether
we are talking about the same thing. ;)

Sven