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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check a word position in a file ? Post 302155408 by rikxik on Thursday 3rd of January 2008 09:56:56 PM
Old 01-03-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by shamrock
Code:
sed 's/.* fire \([0-9][0-9]*\) .*/\1/' file

Doesn't work here:

Code:
$ uname -a
SunOS db012a 5.8 Generic_117350-35 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M
$ which sed
/usr/bin/sed
$ cat file
window 1 truck 3 duck 2 fire 1
$ sed 's/.* fire \([0-9][0-9]*\) .*/\1/' file
window 1 truck 3 duck 2 fire 1

 

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SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL - Reserved SQL words by PostgreSQL SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved PostgreSQL word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by PostgreSQL. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 7.3, 7.4, 8.0 or 8.1. is_reserved_by_postgresql7( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 7.3 or 7.4. is_reserved_by_postgresql8( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 8.0 or 8.1. reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with PostgreSQL versions that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_postgresql7 is_reserved_by_postgresql8 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
SQL::ReservedWords <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/> AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL(3pm)
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