Thanks, but that wasn't my question; I already know how to escape parentheses.
My data is grouped in many variations of parentheses, sometimes doubled or tripled up. I wanted to know if there was a way to match all of those variations with one regex.
More examples:
extract "(bar)" from "(foo (bar))"
extract "(bar)" from "((foo (bar)) baz)"
extract "((foo))" from "(((foo)) bar)"
...etc.
The key thing here is matching the same number of closed parentheses as open parentheses. I just don't want to have to resort to using a stack or doing something like:
I'm trying to use the following command to do a batch find and replace in all commonly named files through a file hierarchy
find . -name 'file' |xargs perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g'
which works fine except for a substitution involving parenthesis.
As a specific example I'm trying to sub... (3 Replies)
I'm using the URL Regex feature of Squid for allowing sites via a list of regex strings to match allowed domains. The regex was actually copied from our previous proxy solution and it seemed to "just work". But, we've recently discovered that some domains (likely due to virtual hosts or host... (2 Replies)
Hi folks,
Lets say I have the following text file:
name, lastname, 1234, name.lastname@test.com
name1, lastname1, name2.lastname2@test.com, 2345
name, 3456, lastname, name3.lastname3@test.com
4567, name, lastname, name4.lastname4@test.com
I now need the following output:
1234... (5 Replies)
Hi Expert,
Could you please explain why below two perl code get different result?
Thanks a lot.
sub test{
return (2,3,4,5,6,3,4,50);
}
($a,$b)=(test); # 3,6
($a,$b)=test; # 2,3 (2 Replies)
I am having trouble parsing rpm filenames in a shell script.. I found a snippet of perl code that will perform the task but I really don't have time to rewrite the entire script in perl. I cannot for the life of me convert this code into something sed-friendly:
if ($rpm =~ /(*)-(*)-(*)\.(.*)/)... (1 Reply)
I need a way to extract data from
X 4T Solution 21 OCT 2011 37 .00
to account 12345678 User1 user2
X 4T Solution Solution Unlimited 11 Sep 2009 248 .00
to account 87654321 user3 user4
I need it to extract 'X' '37.00' and account number 12345678.
I have extracted above stuff... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've a logfile which i need to parse and get the logs depending upon the user input. here, i'm providing an option to enter the string which can be matched with the log entries.
e.g. one of the logfile entry reads like this -
$str = " mpgw(BLUESOAPFramework):... (6 Replies)
I am trying to find patterns in files using grep -l -e. I specifically am searching for abc. I want any file that has abc in it, but not just the letters abc. I am searching for a pattern a followed by b followed by c. I have tried egrep -l and also I have tried the following:
grep -el... (2 Replies)
I am not a big expert in regex and have just little understanding of that language.
Could you help me to understand the regular Perl expression:
^(?!if\b|else\b|while\b|)(?:+?\s+){1,6}(+\s*)\(*\) *?(?:^*;?+){0,10}\{
------
This is regex to select functions from a C/C++ source and defined in... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to extract rows with the pattern ALPHANUMERIC/ALPHANUMNERIC in the 2nd column.
I dont wan rows with more than 1 slash or without any slash in 2nd column.
a a/b
b a/b/c
c a/b//c
d t/y
e r
f /f
I came up with the regex
grep '\/$' file
a a/b
b a/b/c
d t/y (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jianp83
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
stag-diff
STAG-DIFF(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation STAG-DIFF(1p)NAME
stag-diff - finds the difference between two stag files
SYNOPSIS
stag-diff -ignore foo-id -ignore bar-id file1.xml file2.xml
DESCRIPTION
Compares two data trees and reports whether they match. If they do not match, the mismatch is reported.
ARGUMENTS
-help|h
shows this document
-ignore|i ELEMENT
these nodes are ignored for the purposes of comparison. Note that attributes are treated as elements, prefixed by the containing
element id. For example, if you have
<foo ID="wibble">
And you wish to ignore the ID attribute, then you would use the switch
-ignore foo-ID
You can specify multiple elements to ignore like this
-i foo -i bar -i baz
You can also specify paths
-i foo/bar/bar-id
-parser|p FORMAT
which parser to use. The default is XML. This can also be autodetected by the file suffix. Other alternatives are sxpr and itext. See
Data::Stag for details.
-report|r ELEMENT
report mismatches as they occur on each element of type ELEMENT
multiple elements can be specified
-verbose|v
used in conjunction with the -report switch
shows the tree of the mismatching element
OUTPUT
If a mismatch is reported, a report is generated displaying the subpart of the tree that could not be matched. This will look like this:
REASON: no_matching_node: annotation
no_matching_node: feature_set
no_matching_node: feature_span
no_matching_node: evidence
no_matching_node: evidence-id
data_mismatch(:15077290 ne :15077291): evidence-id AND evidence-id
Due to the nature of tree matching, it can be difficult to specify exactly how trees do not match. To investigate this, you may need to use
the -r and -v options. For the above output, I would recommend using
stag-diff -r feature_span -v
ALGORITHM
Both trees are recursively traversed... see the actual code for how this works
The order of elements is not important; eg
<foo>
<bar>
<baz>1</baz>
</bar>
<bar>
<baz>2</baz>
</bar>
</foo>
matches
<foo>
<bar>
<baz>2</baz>
</bar>
<bar>
<baz>1</baz>
</bar>
</foo>
The recursive nature of this algorithm means that certain tree comparisons will explode wrt time and memory. I think this will only happen
with very deep trees where nodes high up in the tree can only be differentiated by nodes low down in the tree.
Both trees are loaded into memory to begin with, so it may thrash with very large documents
AUTHOR
Chris Mungall cjm at fruitfly dot org
SEE ALSO
Data::Stag
perl v5.10.0 2008-12-23 STAG-DIFF(1p)