OT: sed problem

[Marty Landman]

At 08:38 PM 1/31/2004, Daniela wrote:
>I was wondering how I can do the following with sed (or another program):

How's Perl, Daniela?

>1. Output only the text from the start of the line to the first pipe character

$out = ($line =~ /^([^\|]+)/);

>2. Output only the text between the last and the previous pipe character

$out = ($line =~ /\|([^\|]+)|/);

>Or, split the line at the pipe characters and assign the parts to 
>different shell variables.

my @ary = split '|', $line;

These are untested but probably pretty close at least. Sorry, I haven't 
gotten to shell scripting yet so I think in terms of Perl.

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