Re: Feature Request: scanf-like parsing

[William Park]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 1/22/21 9:54 AM, Saint Michael wrote:
> > I vote for this new feature.
> 
> Personally, I've found that scanf underpowered for parsing modern data
> formats. Bash's existing regular expression support seems perfectly adequate
> to me, and it can handle everything that scanf can. I'd only suggest
> extending the regular expression syntax with support for named subgroups.

Ah.. I forgot Bash now has regex.  Just tried =~, and I can get the
subgroups out.  Request withdrawn. :-)
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William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>