Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Dixon
On 09/01/2014 09:55, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Thursday 09 January 2014 09:53:35 Gary Stainburn wrote: Oops, Missed a bit, try s/^[0-9]+[a-c]{0,1}[-_]//; /[a-c]{0,1}/ is normally written as /[a-c]?/ --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active

Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Gordon
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:55:45 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: >On Thursday 09 January 2014 09:53:35 Gary Stainburn wrote: > >Oops, Missed a bit, try > >s/^[0-9]+[a-c]{0,1}[-_]//; > > >Ringways Garages >http://www.ringways.co.uk > Yes, this works & is probably more efficient than my RE. Thanks -- Peter

Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-09 Thread timothy adigun
Hi, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Gary Stainburn < gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > On Thursday 09 January 2014 09:53:35 Gary Stainburn wrote: > > On Thursday 09 January 2014 02:01:55 timothy adigun wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Peter Gordon > > > > wrote

Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-09 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 09 January 2014 09:53:35 Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Thursday 09 January 2014 02:01:55 timothy adigun wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Peter Gordon > > wrote: > > > I'm trying do write a one line RE to strip sequence numbers off > > > filenames. > > > > Something

Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-09 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 09 January 2014 02:01:55 timothy adigun wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Peter Gordon wrote: > > I'm trying do write a one line RE to strip sequence numbers off > > filenames. > > Something like this? > > s/^[0-9_-]+//; Shouldn't that be s/^[0-9]+[-_]// -- Gar

Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-08 Thread Peter Gordon
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:57:00 GMT, Peter Gordon wrote: >I'm trying do write a one line RE to strip sequence numbers off >filenames.  The filename can may have: >No sequence numbers >or >Start with a variable number of digits, >Followed by an optional character between a and c >Followed by a compulsor

Re: Help with a RE

2014-01-08 Thread timothy adigun
Hi, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Peter Gordon wrote: > I'm trying do write a one line RE to strip sequence numbers off > filenames. Something like this? s/^[0-9_-]+//; > The filename can may have: > No sequence numbers >or > Start with a variable number of digits, > Followed by

Help with a RE

2014-01-08 Thread Peter Gordon
I'm trying do write a one line RE to strip sequence numbers off filenames. The filename can may have: No sequence numbers or Start with a variable number of digits, Followed by an optional character between a and c Followed by a compulsory - or _. The characters - and _ can occur in the filenam