How do I obtain regex matches of piped command using shell script? - windows

Question

First of all I'm trying to obtain a certain property from a KML file. For now, I tried
ogrinfo C:/test.kml -so -al | findstr "Extent"
which was recommended to me and outputs
Extent: (-100.054053, 33.702234) - (-94.647180, 37.125712)
I would require this in the form
-100.054053,-94.647180,33.702234,37.125712 for which I thought to use regex.
I tried the following just to see what it outputted:
ogrinfo C:/test.kml -so -al | findstr "Extent" | findstr /r /c:"-*[0-9]*\.[0-9]*"
but this still outputs
Extent: (-100.054053, 33.702234) - (-94.647180, 37.125712)
I read somewhere that Windows' FINDSTR only outputs the line where it matched and not the regex matches themselves. Is there some other way of doing it?
If I get that working I would save the matches in different variables somehow in a shell script. I'm no expert in shell scripting but I've been looking around and was thinking of doing something like this
#!/bin/bash
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('ogrinfo C:/test.kml -so -al ^| findstr "Extent" ^| findstr /r /c:"-*[0-9]*\.[0-9]*"') do (
echo %%a
#do something
)
done >output
but running this causes the shell to immediately disappears and can't even see the error.

Answer 1

Assumptions
You have a kml file with raw data.
You can extract a single line which starts with "Extent: " to get the values you want
Single line => there is only 1 line with that format in the kml file
The format of that line is:
Extent: (NUMBER1, NUMBER2) - (NUMBER3, NUMBER4)
A number can have the following characters: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . -
The output you want is:
NUMBER1,NUMBER3,NUMBER2,NUMBER4
Using Linux tools only, you can do this:
#!/bin/bash
#
datafile="data.kml"
# Ensure the data file exists
if [[ ! -f "$datafile" ]]
then
echo "ERROR: the data file does not exist."
exit 1
fi
# Extract the "Extent:" line
dataline=$(grep "Extent: " "$datafile")
# Make sure the line is of a valid format, and assign the number variables
if [[ $dataline =~ "Extent: ("([0-9.-]+)", "([0-9.-]+)") - ("([0-9.-]+)", "([0-9.-]+)")" ]] && number1="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" && number2="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" && number3="${BASH_REMATCH[3]}" && number4="${BASH_REMATCH[4]}"
then
echo "-----DEBUG-----"
echo "line==$dataline"
echo "1==$number1"
echo "2==$number2"
echo "3==$number3"
echo "4==$number4"
echo "-- END DEBUG --"
echo ""
echo "$number1,$number3,$number2,$number4"
else
echo "ERROR: there is no \"Extent: \" line in the data file ($datafile)"
fi
Details:
Everything is done in the if line.
=~ matches the left side with the pattern on the right side.
In the regular expression, you can define sections you want to reuse with ( ).
Ex: abcd(1)efgh(2)ijkl. The sections you can reuse are 1 and 2.
So in the if, each number is surrounded by parentheses.
When the =~ is processed, the BASH_REMATCH array is defined with each section.
The "DEBUG" echo statements can be removed or commented out.
If you have more than one "Extent: ..." in the KML file, you can loop on the lines and process each one at a time.