Hi, Since "There's More Than One Way To Do It", one can look for the value, instead of the separator:
$ echo "total kB 180448 2980 112" |perl6 -n -e 'say .comb(/\d+/)[1]' 2980 On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi Todd, > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:00:22 -0700 > ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > > > echo "total kB 180448 2980 112" | awk '{print $4}') > > shlomif[Perl6]:$trunk$ echo "total kB 180448 2980 112" | > perl6 > -n -e 'say .split(/\s+/)[3]' > > 2980 > > shlomif[Perl6]:$trunk$ echo "total kB 180448 2980 112" | > awk > '{print $4}' > > 2980 > > See https://docs.perl6.org/language/5to6-nutshell#-a and > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html . > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > What does “Zionism” mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism > > Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem is about to be replaced by the > [Clarissa] Darling “Like, Totally!” Completeness Theorem. > — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Clarissa/ > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > -- Fernando Santagata