Re: Extending R.E. Syntax (was: Re: Eliminating binary from a text file)

2015-07-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Omer, On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > Instead of creating a separate bgrep, it would have been better to be > able to extend the syntax of regular expressions (in egrep, Perl and > other platforms) to allow specification of binary strings having > arbitrary length by means

Re: Extending R.E. Syntax (was: Re: Eliminating binary from a text file)

2015-07-20 Thread Alexander Sukholitko
Hi, Possibly using "strings file_name >new_file_name" command could resolve this problem. Thank you. Alex On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > Instead of creating a separate bgrep, it would have been better to be > able to extend the syntax of regular expressions (in egrep, Perl an