Splitting variable into two numbers

[lisa-asket]

I could get somewhere with the following



echo "{5,8}" | awk -F"[{}]" '{print $2}'



From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
To: help-bash@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Splitting variable into two numbers
Date: 20/07/2021 20:26:32 Europe/Paris

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 08:20:29PM +0200, lisa-asket@perso.be wrote:
> The multi-input is always enclosed within braces with no whitespaces.
> Thus "{5,8}", "{13,21}"

p=${input%,*} p=${p#\{}
q=${input#*,} q=${q%\}}

This still sounds like either an X-Y, or homework.



Am just searching through a list of files between lines p and q.  Only did one 
course

on data structures and hated it.