I need to parse a tab delimited text file of several thousand lines.&nbsp; The first part is easy;<br><br>cut -f8 file<br><br>field 8 of this file contains multiple, variable length, sentences enclosed in double quotes.&nbsp; Example returned by the cut command above:
<br><br>&quot;this is sentence one. this i sentence two.&nbsp; this &quot;&quot;is a quote that may be&quot;&quot; in sentence three.&quot;<br><br>I need to grab the first sentence for further processing (without the period, without the beginning quote mark) into a variable, but am having difficulty. Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this?&nbsp; I&#39;m open to bash,perl,python solutions, but prefer bash.
<br><br>TIA,<br>dan<br>