You could also use POSIX's regular expressions (regcomp(), regexec(), regfree()).
First you compile a regex using regcomp(), then you can match it several times to a certain string using regexec(). Finally you should free the compiled regex with regfree().
A very simple example:
This code doesn't compile (regcomp throws an error)... is there any way to get regcomp/regexec to recognize whitespace (using "_" doesn't work) or a word boundary?
Hi ,
I have a code like this:
uid=scott
password=tiger
database=db01
cat >runid_val.sql<<-EOA
SET ECHO OFF
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SET HEADING OFF
SELECT trim(runid_seq.nextval) FROM dual;
EXIT
EOA
echo `cat runid_val.sql`
V_RUNID=`sqlplus -s $uid/$password@$database @runid_val.sql`... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a CSV file with footer information as below. The third value is the number of records in the file. Sometimes it contains both leading and trailing white spaces which i want to trim using awk.
C,FOOTER , 00000642
C,FOOTER , 00000707
C, FOOTER,... (2 Replies)
Hi All;
Having a problem with a file..
the file contains the following data... (a snapshot)
1331F9E9DB7C2BB80EAEDE3A8F043B94,AL7 1DZ,M,50
186FDF93E1303DBA217279EC3671EA91,NG5 1JU,M,24
3783FFAF602015056A8CD21104B1AAAF,CH42 4NQ,M,17
It has 3 columns sepreated by a ,
the second column... (7 Replies)
Dear Members,
Suppose i have a variable test which stores a string as below:
test='John drives+++++++++a+++++car'
now i want to use sed on the above variable and replace + with a white space, so that i get
echo $test should give me
'john drives a car'
Between... (1 Reply)
Hi,
What sed command (if sed is the right command) can remove ALL white space from my file. I have a csv, except I want to remove all white space between commas and characters.
My idea (without testing)
sed 's/ //g'
Is there a better way? (18 Replies)
our user creates a text file with a white space on the filename. this same file is transfered to unix via automation tool. i have a korn shell script that reads these files on a input directory and connects to oracle database to run the oracle procedures which will load the data from each of the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Consider the data (FS = |):
1| England |end
2| New Zealand |end
3|Australia|end
4| Some Made Up Country |end
5| West Indies|end
I want the output to be (i.e. without the leading and trailing white space from $2)
England
New Zealand
Australia
Some Made Up Country
West... (4 Replies)
hi guys
how can i add spacein file name with sed if strings have no space around dash
input
19-20
( 18-19 )
ABC-EFG
output after add white space
19 - 20
(18 - 19 )
ABC - EFG
thx in advance (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Hope, you all are doing good out there.
I am writing a shell script and currrint in need of your help.
This is what I need to do;
I have position based plain file. One of the fields is 15 character long. I need to fill that field. The problem is that the value is dynamic, it could... (4 Replies)
In Shell, I have output of a unix command as
test1
test2015
but I want it as
test1 test2015
can anyone help me out.
Use code tags, thanks. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: OscarS
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regex.h
regex.h(3HEAD) Headers regex.h(3HEAD)NAME
regex.h, regex - regular expression matching types
SYNOPSIS
#include <regex.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <regex.h> header defines the structures and symbolic constants used by the regcomp(), regexec(), regerror(), and regfree() functions.
See regcomp(3C).
The structure type regex_t contains the following member:
size_t re_nsub number of parenthesized subexpressions
The type size_t is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).
The type regoff_t is defined as a signed integer type that can hold the largest value that can be stored in either a type off_t or type
ssize_t. The structure type regmatch_t contains the following members:
regoff_t rm_so byte offset from start of string to start
of substring
regoff_t rm_eo byte offset from start of string of the
first character after the end of substring
Values for the cflags parameter to the regcomp function are as follows:
REG_EXTENDED use extended regular expressions
REG_ICASE ignore case in match
REG_NOSUB report only success or fail in regexec()
REG_NEWLINE change the handling of NEWLINE character
Values for the eflags parameter to the regexec() function are as follows:
REG_NOTBOL The circumflex character (^), when taken as a special character, does not match the beginning of string.
REG_NOTEOL The dollar sign ($), when taken as a special character, does not match the end of string.
The following constants are defined as error return values:
REG_NOMATCH regexec() failed to match.
REG_BADPAT Invalid regular expression.
REG_ECOLLATE Invalid collating element referenced.
REG_ECTYPE Invalid character class type referenced.
REG_EESCAPE Trailing '' in pattern.
REG_ESUBREG Number in fIdigit invalid or in error.
REG_EBRACK "[]" imbalance.
REG_EPAREN "()" or "()" imbalance.
REG_EBRACE "" imbalance.
REG_BADBR Content of "" invalid: not a number, number too large, more than two numbers, first larger than second.
REG_ERANGE Invalid endpoint in range expression.
REG_ESPACE Out of memory.
REG_BADRPT '?', '*', or '+' not preceded by valid regular expression.
REG_ENOSYS Reserved.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO regcomp(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 9 Sep 2004 regex.h(3HEAD)