Extract substring using regexp in plain bash

Question

I\'m trying to extract the time from a string using bash, and I\'m having a hard time figuring it out.

My string is like this:

US/Central - 10:26 PM          


        

Answer 1

If your string is

foo="US/Central - 10:26 PM (CST)"

then

echo "${foo}" | cut -d ' ' -f3

will do the job.