[ale] here's one for the script wizards

[mhw at WittsEnd.com (Michael H. Warfield)]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:53 -0500, Asher Vilensky wrote:
> I need a script that would do this:

> input file (text):
> john (amy) fred (bob) julie (mike).....

Short on details here.  Are you looking for the 1st, 3rd, and 5th white
space separated fields?  Do you want to quit after one line or stream
the whole file?

> output:
> john fred julie

> (amy) (bob) (mike)        -  optional, with or without parenthesis.

> Perl or bash would do.

sed:

sed -e 's/^\([^\s]*\)\s*[^\s]*\s*\([^\s]*\)\s*[^\s]*\s*\([^\s]*\)\s*[^\s]*/\1 \2 \3/'

awk would do as well a sed here.

bash:

while read word1 word2 word3 word4 word5
	echo word1 word3 word5
done

Perl's pretty trivial too.

Is that what you're after here or am I misunderstanding something there?
Seems too simple. 

> Thanks.

> -- Asher 

Mike
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