Short: Alternative to strip a given word from a string. Author: agneta.nord@swipnet.se (Agneta Nord) Uploader: agneta nord swipnet se (Agneta Nord) Type: util/cli Version: 1.0 (7.12.99) Architecture: m68k-amigaos Name: The name derivates from "Strip A Word". Purpose: I wrote this to simplify scripting while I was dealing with logfiles. Usage is within scripts. 'saw' deals with arguments only. I can see no relevance in interactive use. If You don't do scripts, You probably don't find any use in this "utility". Template: saw 'word_number' is a number from 1 and up to 999. 'string' is the literal string or a variable that contains a number of words from which a particular word is searched. Results: The word is output to stdout and can be redirected to a file or used to set a variable. A trailing newline is not appended intentionally. I didn't want that as it can be used to extract a word that is to be joined with other files where a newline is not desired. If You need a newline You redirect the output to a variable and use ECHO which append a newline character for You. If You point to a word beyond the list, a word_number that is higher than the number of words, 'saw' exits with a warn and give no output. See examples below for usage. If word_number is not a numeric positive integer You'll have a WARNing and not a FAIL. Examples: --------- The ENV:vehicles contains "car train boat bike": # saw 3 $vehicles >vehicle # more vehicle boat # --------- The same contents in ENV:vehicles: # saw 3 $vehicles boat# --------- Example, fictive logfile excerpt: 6.12.99 1:15:32 pppd: Local IP 123.234.3.56 recieved If You want the IP adress for insertion in an html document, in a script You could write something like: set ipstring `search "Local IP" nonum` saw 6 $ipstring >ip ; from the example above -> 192.168.1.15 if warn ; something went wrong quit ; so we bail out endif join head ip tail to myaddress.html unset ipstring --------- 'saw' could also be used to test for a number of words in a string: set fruit banana apple orange pineapple pear saw 6 $fruit >nil: if warn echo "There is less than 6 fruits." quit endif echo "There is 6 fruits or more." --------- So what? I use "ECHO START=32 LEN=12 NOLINE". Well, in some cases the length of some words are not static and tests which could be tedious and error prone would have to be performed by the script.