Re: Problem with positional output

"[email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]> 16 Nov 2016 15:24:18 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You could also do it without resorting to expensive backrefs, like as, 

 printf '%s\n' "$RETVAL" | sed -n 's/|/\n/;P'
 

---In [email protected], <linux4michelle@...> wrote :

 Grmpf!
 
 
 Now I have to reply to myself!
 
 
 On 2016-11-14 14:03:50 Michelle Konzack hacked into the keyboard:
 > Hello *,
 > 
 > after 4 years of Linux/OSS abstinence I am back and I run into troubles,
 > because I have forgotten ho to get values from a string...
 > 
 > 
 > The string has 4 parameters, deperated 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!'
 
 
 Greetings
 
 
 -- 
 Michelle Konzack ITSystems
 GNU/Linux Developer 0033-6-61925193




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