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Osman Batur Çelik
Osman Batur Çelik

Reputation: 39

Read string between two character

I have one file with 31899 line and I only want to print string betwwen [] symbols how can I do that.I only want test and test 2 strings.

[TEST]
var=15
[TEST2]
dex=78

Upvotes: 0

Views: 208

Answers (3)

Locoluis
Locoluis

Reputation: 804

GNU awk-specific solution:

gawk 'match($0,/^\[(.*)\]/, ary) { print ary[1]}' < yourFile

Upvotes: 0

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 79983

 for /f "delims=[]" %%a in ('find "[" "filename" ') do echo %%a

(as a batch line - reduce each %% to % to run directly from the prompt)

for every line that contains [, extract the first token delinted by the two nominated characters.

Assumes all instances of [ are as shown in the sample.

Upvotes: 0

Compo
Compo

Reputation: 38589

There were a couple of small errors in Magoo's answer, try one of these instead.

Batch File, (current directory contains artmd.ini):

@For /F "Delims=[]" %%A In ('Find "["^<"artmd.ini"') Do @Echo=%%A

Command prompt, (current directory contains artmd.ini):

For /F "Delims=[]" %A In ('Find "["^<"artmd.ini"') Do @Echo=%A

Upvotes: 1

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