setexpr: add regex substring matching and substitution
Add "setexpr name gsub r s [t]" and "setexpr name sub r s [t]"
commands which implement substring matching for the regular
expression <r> in the string <t>, and substitution of the string <s>.
The result is assigned to the environment variable <name>. If <t> is
not supplied, the previous value of <name> is used instead. "gsub"
performs global substitution, while "sub" will replace only the first
substring.
Both commands are closely modeled after the gawk functions with the
same names.
Examples:
- Generate broadcast address by substituting the last two numbers of
the IP address by "255.255":
- Depending on keyboard configuration (German vs. US keyboard) a
barcode scanner may initialize the MAC address as C0:E5:4E:02:06:DC
or as C0>E5>4E>02>06>DC. Make sure we always have a correct value: