A crude solution is outlined below - Note - I highly suspect that this is not the most efficient way to perform this task.
ALSO!! Please, in future provide the forum with detail of your query and a sample of your code to show how far you have troubled. You'll likely get more qualified responses in return.
I have one file:
123*100*abcd*10
123*101*abcd*-29*def
123*100*abcd*-10
123*102*abcd*-105*asd
I would like to parameterize the search patterns in the following way so that the user could dynamically change the search pattern.
*100* and *- (ie *minus)
*102* and *-
The output that is... (6 Replies)
Good day, great gurus,
I'm new to Perl, and programming in general. I'm trying to retrieve a column of data from my text file which spans a non-specific number of lines. So I did a regexp that will pick out the columns. However,my pattern would vary. I tried using a foreach loop unsuccessfully.... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm struggling to find an option for gzgrep to grep compressed files for multiple patterns preferanly using a pattern file (so pattern file can be altered seperately to rest of script).
My regex patterns are say:
4\{15\}
3\{13\}
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep will accept -f option but... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file in which i have to search for a pattern from the beginning of the file and if the pattern is found , then i have to perform a reverse search from that line to the beginning of the file to get the first occurrence of another pattern.
sample input file
hey
what are you... (8 Replies)
Dear all,
I need to search multiple patterns and then I need to print their respective next lines. For an example, in the below table, I will look for 3 different patterns :
1) # ATC_Codes:
2) # Generic_Name:
3) # Drug_Target_1_Gene_Name:
#BEGIN_DRUGCARD DB00001
# AHFS_Codes:... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that is 430K lines long. It has records like below
|site1|MAP
|site2|MAP
|site1|MODAL
|site2|MAP
|site2|MODAL
|site2|LINK
|site1|LINK
My task is to count the number of time MAP, MODAL, LINK occurs for a single site and write new records like below to a new file
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to find patterns that are common or matched in a specified column in multiple files.
File1.txt
ID1 555
ID23 8857
ID4 4454
ID05 555
File2.txt
ID74 4454
ID96 555
ID322 4454 (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to grep multiple patterns from multiple files and save to multiple outputs. As of now its outputting all to the same file when I use this command.
Input : 108 files to check for 390 patterns to check for. output I need to 108 files with the searched patterns.
Xargs -I {} grep... (3 Replies)
I am able to grep multiple patterns which stored in a files. However, how could we replace the whole line with either the pattern or new string?
For example:
pattern_file: *Info in the () is not part of the pattern file. They are the intended name to replace the whole line after the pattern... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: wxboo
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regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)