Command to extract word from a string

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

I have a word and from that word would like to search for certain set of string, is there any command to do so ?

EX :

Components

from the above word, would like to search for strings set and extract the search string and then do if stmt...

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Com

say something like this,

search_word="Components"

result=grep Com $search_word

and in $result i want the just the extracted word ie, result=Com

Thanks,
Ops

2

try something like below

if [ `awk 'BEGIN { print index("Component", "Com") }'` -gt 0 ]
then
echo "Com"
fi
3

Totally longhand using __builtins__, CygWin bash under Windows Vista...
All done with understandable variables so you can see how it works...

#!/bin/bash
# sub_str.sh
my_string="This is a component catalogue..."
substring="a c"
substring_length=3
subscript=0
for subscript in $( seq 0 1 $(( ${#my_string} - 3 )) )
do
	if [ "${my_string:$subscript:$substring_length}" == "$substring" ]
	then
		echo "Substring ~$substring~ found in ~$my_string~ at position $(( $subscript + 1 ))..."
	fi
done
exit 0

result for string "a c"...

AMIGA:~> cd /tmp
AMIGA:/tmp> dos2unix sub_str.sh
dos2unix: converting file sub_str.sh to Unix format ...
AMIGA:/tmp> ./sub_str.sh
Substring ~a c~ found in ~This is a component catalogue...~ at position 9...
AMIGA:/tmp> _