help needed: what is the command to retrieve words between { and }.

[rajesh_thota]

hi every body:

please help me ,
what is the command to retrieve words between { and }.

example the page is like this:
I am working on {linux}
{unix} {linux} are similar to each other
{linux}{solaris}{HP-AIX} are the different flavors of {unix}

so the output should be :
linux
unix
linux
linux
solaris
HP-AIX
unix
please help me by providing the command to retrieve words present in between " { "and " } ".

with Regards and Thanks,
Rajesh

[Reisswolf]

The command you are looking for is char *rtvtbbr(const char* s), which stands for "retrieve text between braces." Just "man" that function on your system.

*****

Sorry, your question is quite ill-stated, and I could not resist. In what language are you programming? If I were to solve the same problem, I would just write a function that would check the input string for an opening brace, then look for the corresponding closing brace, and then copy the substring to a destination string.

However, if you already know what strings might be found between the braces, you can use the function char *strstr(const char* haystack, const char *needle) to extract the text without writing any custom function yourself. Just "man" that function.

[rajesh_thota]

hi every body:
I am new to solaris(UNIX) environement.
please help me ,
what is the command to retrieve words between { and }.

example the page is like this:
I am working on {linux}
{unix} {linux} are similar to each other
{linux}{solaris}{HP-AIX} are the different flavors of {unix}

so the output should be :
linux
unix
linux
linux
solaris
HP-AIX
unix
please help me by providing the command to retrieve words present in between " { "and " } ".

with Regards and Thanks,
Rajesh

[gagan_goku]

Why did u type your post again
If u were trying to do that in perl,you could do this

@list = /{([^}])*}/g;
print "@list";

[rajesh_thota]

hello sir,

I tried the command /{([^}])*}/g but not working on solaris bash shell.
actually I ahve to retrieve some prompts present in differnet pages and the page format would be same as given in the example.

so I gave the command (being in that directory where the pages are available)
grep { * | cut -f 2 -d "{"
and the output is like this(for above given example)
linux}
unix} {linux} are similar to each other
linux}{solaris}{HP-AIX} are the different flavors of {unix}

well If I use another cut operation I will get these:
linux
unix
linux

but I also want solaris and HP-AIX to be displayed, which are present in the same line.
well in my actual files I dont know what are the words present .



please help me by providing the command to retrieve words present in between " { "and " } ".