On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Len Conrad wrote:
We need to print a line when the 3rd field (with trailing ";" delimiter) is,
eg, exactly 5 lower case characters
awk ' $3 ~ /^[a-z]{5,5};$/ {print $0} ' file
... doesn't work.
Suggestions?
Please give an example of the line this doesn't work on, and exactly
what you want it to do.
"{5}" is probably acceptable instead of "{5,5}". I don't do much awk,
but here's a Perl example:
perl -e '$x = "abcde;"; print "Yes\n" if $x =~ /^[a-z]{5};$/'
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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