Getting certain columns in bash

Question

Suppose I have an array where each element in the array is in the following format:

someText (x1,y1,z1) (x2,y2,z2) (x3,y2,z3) KEY

What is the a

Answer 1

This is how you can get first and last element of your string in the array:

echo "someText (x1,y1,z1) (x2,y2,z2) (x3,y2,z3) KEY" | rev | cut -d " " -f 1 | rev

echo "someText (x1,y1,z1) (x2,y2,z2) (x3,y2,z3) KEY" | cut -d " " -f 1