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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: regular expressions
Message-ID: <3073@solo4.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 25 Aug 89 16:12:23 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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I've always wanted to be able to do something like the following:

	case $domain in
	\(.*\)\.\(.*\)\.edu)
		department=\1
		university=\2
	*)
		# ...
	esac

instead of

	case $domain in
	*.*.edu)
		department=`echo "$domain" | sed 's/\([^.]*\).*/\1/'`
		university=`echo "$domain" | sed 's/.*\([^.]*\).edu/\1/'`
	*)
		# ...
	esac

You get the idea.  Is this possible with bash?
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