grep to find content in between curly braces, "{" and "},"

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

problem String

icecream= \{ smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" , 
                     smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad"  \} 
aend = \{smart vc4 eatr kalu\} 

output needed

smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" , smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad"
smart vc4 eatr kalu

I am new to use shell script,
facing problem to fetch above result specially when curly braces are
in different lines.

i am using ksh

Any one with some idea to help.............
thanks
kris

2

FILE:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
icecream= { smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" , 
smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad" } 
aend = {smart vc4 eatr kalu}

awk code:

awk ' BEGIN { p=0 }
      {
      	for(i=1; i<length($0); i++)
      	{
      	    test=substr($0, i, 1)
      		if(test=="{") {
      		    p=1
      		    continue
      		}
      		if(test=="}") {
      		    p=0;
      		}
      		if(p==1) {
      		    printf("%s", test)
      		}
      	}
      	printf("\n") } ' filename

output

 smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" ,
smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad"
smart vc4 eatr kalu
3

jim thanks

but i need to have output as

output needed

smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" , smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad" 
smart vc4 eatr kalu

is there any way to fetch all the contents that come in between curly braces, "\{" and "\},"

regards
kris
4 
sed -n -e '$!N' -e 's/\n//g' -e 's/.*{\([^{][^{]*\)}.*/\1/gp' filename
5

If you have Python and open to alternatives:

#!/usr/bin/python
import re
data=open("file").read()
result=re.compile("{(.*?)}",re.M|re.DOTALL).findall(data)
for item in result:
    item=item.replace("\n","")
    print item

output:

# python test.py
 smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" ,smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad"
smart vc4 eatr kalu