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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers excise a part of string Post 302319969 by roussine on Tuesday 26th of May 2009 05:01:01 PM
Old 05-26-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Try this:

Code:
sed 's/\(.*THDEA\).*\(:.*\)/\1\2/'

thanks- really unix is elegant

-----Post Update-----

Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Try this:

Code:
sed 's/\(.*THDEA\).*\(:.*\)/\1\2/'

Hey, here i'm again:
it seems in strings where there are more than one ':' after the name (in this case, AQAEO) this command eats up the line up to the last ':' in the string instead of excising the text between the name and the first occurrenc of ':' after it.

I attach the initial and the resulting files. I tried to play with the '.*' part of the command but the result's the same. U have an idea why?

Thanks in advance.
Last edited by roussine; 05-26-2009 at 07:30 PM..
 

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ppi::token::quotelike

PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)

NAME

       PPI::Token::QuoteLike - Quote-like operator abstract base class

INHERITANCE

	 PPI::Token::QuoteLike
	 isa PPI::Token
	     isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION

       The "PPI::Token::QuoteLike" class is never instantiated, and simply provides a common abstract base class for the five quote-like operator
       classes. In PPI, a "quote-like" is the set of quote-like things that exclude the string quotes and regular expressions.

       The subclasses of "PPI::Token::QuoteLike" are:

       qw{} - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Words
       `` - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Backtick
       qx{} - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Command
       qr// - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Regexp
       <FOO> - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline

       The names are hopefully obvious enough not to have to explain what each class is. See their pages for more details.

       You may note that the backtick and command quote-like are treated separately, even though they do the same thing. This is intentional, as
       the inherit from and are processed by two different parts of the PPI's quote engine.

SUPPORT

       See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2011-02-26						  PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)
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