regular expression to match repeated appearance

guruparan18 · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Hi all,

I am looking for a regex syntax to match repeated appearance. Likes,

Code:

'[[:alnum]]+[[:alnum:]]+' matches for string '65A SOME MORE AND 78B'

Now, this gets messy if I need to extract all such repeated appearance. I don't want to write [[:alnum:]] four or five times for matching repeated appearance.

Thanks in advance.

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Basically, I am looking at extracting all alpha numeric from the string. Doesn't matter how many times it appears in the string.

Franklin52 · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Can you post the input file and the desired output between code tags?

guruparan18 · #3 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Contents of test.file

Code:

68A some text here 89B some other text here.
new line here, 12A on second line 34B
some lines may have 12B and 56F and 67C and so on 23

Now, I need to read each line, compare them with regular expression '[[:alnum:]]' to fetch the string alpha numerics into a variable.

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