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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Gsub regex not working Post 302752977 by unknownn on Monday 7th of January 2013 10:33:21 PM
Old 01-07-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
One way to do it is:
Code:
awk -F '[]]|[[]' '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i+=2)printf("%s",$i);printf("\n")}' in

If you're using a Solaris system, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk instead of awk.
Afraid I'm running this under OS X.
awk gives me:
Code:
awk: can't open file in source line number 1

nawk is unavailable.

Edit: Your second solution works wonderfully. Thank you very much.

Last edited by unknownn; 01-07-2013 at 11:43 PM..
 

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MB_REGEX_SET_OPTIONS(3) 						 1						   MB_REGEX_SET_OPTIONS(3)

mb_regex_set_options - Set/Get the default options for mbregex functions

SYNOPSIS
string mb_regex_set_options ([string $options = mb_regex_set_options()]) DESCRIPTION
Sets the default options described by $options for multibyte regex functions. PARAMETERS
o $options - The options to set. This is a string where each character is an option. To set a mode, the mode character must be the last one set, however there can only be set one mode but multiple options. Regex options +-------+-------------------------------+---+---+ |Option | | | | | | | | | | | Meaning | | | | | | | | +-------+-------------------------------+---+---+ | i | | | | | | | | | | | Ambiguity match on | | | | | | | | | x | | | | | | | | | | | Enables extended pattern form | | | | | | | | | m | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | '.' matches with newlines | | | | | | | | | s | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | '^' -> 'A', '$' -> '' | | | | | | | | | p | | | | | | | | | | | Same as both the m and s | | | | | options | | | | | | | | | l | | | | | | | | | | | Finds longest matches | | | | | | | | | n | | | | | | | | | | | Ignores empty matches | | | | | | | | | e | | | | | | | | | | | eval(3) resulting code | | | | | | | | +-------+-------------------------------+---+---+ Regex syntax modes +-----+----------------------------+---+---+ |Mode | | | | | | | | | | | Meaning | | | | | | | | +-----+----------------------------+---+---+ | j | | | | | | | | | | | Java (Sun java.util.regex) | | | | | | | | | u | | | | | | | | | | | GNU regex | | | | | | | | | g | | | | | | | | | | | grep | | | | | | | | | c | | | | | | | | | | | Emacs | | | | | | | | | r | | | | | | | | | | | Ruby | | | | | | | | | z | | | | | | | | | | | Perl | | | | | | | | | b | | | | | | | | | | | POSIX Basic regex | | | | | | | | | d | | | | | | | | | | | POSIX Extended regex | | | | | | | | +-----+----------------------------+---+---+ RETURN VALUES
The previous options. If $options is omitted, it returns the string that describes the current options. SEE ALSO
mb_split(3), mb_ereg(3), mb_eregi(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_REGEX_SET_OPTIONS(3)
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