Extract data from a string

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all,

I want to extract "this_data" from the string below using awk

<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>

Any help would be appreciated

2

Something like this ?

$ echo "<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>" | awk -F "[>,<]" '{print $3}'

this_data

** here I am using two FS
3 
> echo "<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>"
<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>
> echo "<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>" | awk -F">" '{print $2}' | awk -F"<" '{print $1}'
this_data
4

If you have a string, i.e., a variable, you don't need awk; the shell can do it internally:

string='<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>'
temp=${string#<*>}
printf "%s\n" "${temp%<*>}"
5

Thanks guys for all you help, much appreciated

6 
use strict;
my $str='<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>';
$str=~/^<[^>]*>([^<]*)<[^>]*>$/;
print $1;

echo '<Bundle_Name>this_data</Bundle_Name>' | sed 's/\(<.*>\)\(.*\)\(<.*>\)/\2/'