Re: missing way to extract data out of data

[Dale R. Worley]

Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> writes:
> yea well it does wonders, however was looking for a way without spawning
> externals like gawk.. maybe in future there will be =)

Traditionally, shell scripts depended on external binaries to do a lot
of the processing.  At the least, what newer shells do with "{NNN..MMM}"
and "[[" used to be done by "seq" and "test" a/k/a "[".  And what can be
done by the complex parameter expansions ${...%...} and ${...#...} was
done by "sed".

Dale