title: Shell script: how to read only a portion of text from a variable
body: <p>I'm developing a little script using ash shell (not bash). </p>
  
  <p>Now i have a variable with the following composition: </p>
  
  <pre><code>VARIABLE = "number string status"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where number could be any number (actually between 1 and 18 but in the future that number could be higher) the string is a name and status is or on or off
  The name usually is only lowercase letter. </p>
  
  <p>Now my problem is to read only the string content in the variable, removing the number and the status.</p>
  
  <p>How i can obtain that?</p>