Hi All, Can someone please lend me a hand to parse the following text into a usable format. I am grepping a web page for a numeric figure that appears only on one line using the following #lynx -source http://172.19.100.127/eng/main.htm|grep sVal\\[7\\] This produces the following output #sVal[7] = "2016"; I want to be able to extract only the numeric figure so it can be used in a expr sum. the figure can be anywhere from 0 to several million. I am using the following but need the last 2 characters to allways be removed. # lynx -source http://172.19.100.127/eng/main.htm|grep sVal\\[7\\] | cut -c 12-20 # 2016"; What is the best way? I tried using a delimeter of " but can not seem to get it to work # #lynx -source http://172.19.100.127/eng/main.htm|grep sVal\\[7\\]|cut -d, -f" Thanks Paul