Extract upper case characters from a string


 
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Old 09-12-2009
Extract upper case characters from a string

Hi Friends,

I have a script which returns me the following values line by line

ora_smon_RCAT102
oracleKHP102B (DESC
oraclePROOIDDB92 (DES
oraclePMS (DESCRIP
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oraclePRDB92 (DES
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oraclePMS (DESCRIP
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleKHP102B (DESC

I need to extract from left all the letters which starts in upper case until it is the end of line or until it finds a space. Looking forward from the experts for a help.

Asad
# 2  
Old 09-13-2009
Code:
$ 
$ cat f2
ora_smon_RCAT102
oracleKHP102B (DESC
oraclePROOIDDB92 (DES
oraclePMS (DESCRIP
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oraclePRDB92 (DES
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oraclePMS (DESCRIP
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleBRIO (LOCAL=N
oracleKHP102B (DESC
$ 
$ perl -nle 's/^[^A-Z]+| .*$//g; print' f2
RCAT102
KHP102B
PROOIDDB92
PMS
BRIO
BRIO
PRDB92
BRIO
BRIO
PMS
BRIO
BRIO
KHP102B
$ 
$

tyler_durden
# 3  
Old 09-13-2009
Code:
 
sed 's/[^A-Z]*\([A-Z0-9]\+\).*/\1/' myfile

# 4  
Old 09-13-2009
Thanks guys, working perfecctly fine
# 5  
Old 09-13-2009
Code:
perl -ne '{chomp; print $1,"\n" if /([A-Z][^ ]*(?=( .*)?$))/;}'

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