On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:43:28PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Craig Tinson: > > guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can > > help with one.. > > > > I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: > > > > (pg. 2) > > Which tool? I believe perl's would be: > > /\(pg\. [0-9]*\)/ > > or: > > /\(pg\. \d+\)/ > > > Shell would be: > > \(pg\. [0-9]*\)
i noticed you used * in two cases and + in another, I should think you'd want to use +, or if the program only supports *: [0-9][0-9]* and sed without the "-r" switch would interpret \(\) as grouping not literal parens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
