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 Request withdrawn. :-) -- William Park <opengeome...@yahoo.ca>
