From: andrea spitaleri (spitaleri.andrea_at_hsr.it)
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 08:42:49 CST

more file | awk '{print $4}'
or even grep ..

then if you more files just use a loop

andrea

Anna Modzelewska wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a tcl script in which I need to read numerical values of
> variable length from a file.
> Is there any simple way to read from files string after string and not
> sign after sign?
>
> To make the question more clear, the lines are:
> "text1 text2: -1.2345 23.5 -234.56731"
> "text154 text2: 5.23 -2.987 -2.531"
> and I would like to read the fourth string from each line (in this
> case: 23.5 and -2.987).
>
> Best Regards
> Anna
>
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