Re: Feature Request: scanf-like parsing

[pepa65]

On 22/01/2021 21.57, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 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.

The power and easy of use of the bash input handling is already superb
compared with many other languages. I won't need this scanf extension.
Anything that would make bash more robust and versatile has my
preference of spending time on if voting is called for.

I would like a "<<<" that doesn't cut off empty lines (perhaps "<<<-" ?)
and I still love the idea of ">>>variable" to direct output into a
variable without needing a subshell, so "2>>>errormsg" could be used to
route stderr of a pipeline into the variable errormsg.

Cheers,
Peter