When the file has a line with just single open paranthesis, then you will get regex error ?! What is the big deal in this ?
It would exit the program at this point.
I ended up having to go with passing $_ to a scalar variable and then placing the scalar variable into an array.
Thank you all for your help.
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If you dont understand the basics, you will end up in confusions.
This is why I'm here. I was able to figure out the problem after I thought about what was happening for awhile and researched how the grep() function operated. And remembered about Quotemetas.
Just out of curiosity, when I do the following:
It seems not to go through the @filter array, but rather only the first value of it. Why would this be when trying to read directly from the file?
guys,
my requirment goes like this:
I have a file, and wish to filter out records where
1. The first letter is o or O
and
2. The next 4 following letter should not be ther
I do not wish to use pipe and wish to do it in one shot.
The best expression I came up with is:
grep ^*... (10 Replies)
When i do ls -ld RT_BP* i am getting the following list.
drwxrwx--- 2 user group 256 Oct 17 10:09 RT_BP809
drwxrwx--- 2user group 256 Oct 17 10:09 RT_BP809.O
drwxrwx--- 2 user group 256 Oct 17 10:09 RT_BP810
drwxrwx--- 2user group 256 Oct... (2 Replies)
Hi, guys. I have one question, hope somebody can give me a hand
I have a file called passwd, the contents of it arebelow:
***********************
...
goldsimj:x:5008:200:
goldsij2:x:5009:200:
whitej:x:5010:201:
brownj:x:5011:202:
goldsij3:x:5012:204:
greyp:x:5013:203:
...... (6 Replies)
please can someone tell me what the following regrex means
grep "^aa*$" <file>
I thought this would match any word beginning with aa and ending with $, but it doesnt.
Thanks in advance
Calypso (7 Replies)
Hi,
Below is an example of a record I have, which I wish to split using the perl's split function and load it into an array. I am having tough time figuring out the exact reg-ex to perform the split.
Given record:
"a","xyz",0,2,48,"abcd","lmno,pqrR, stv",300,"abc",20,
The delimiter to... (4 Replies)
I am completely new to perl programming. My father is helping me learn said programming language. However, I am stuck on one of the assignments he has given me, and I can't find very much help with it via google, either because I have a tiny attention span, or because I can be very very dense.
... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
How am I read a file, find the match regular expression and overwrite to the same files.
open DESTINATION_FILE, "<tmptravl.dat" or die "tmptravl.dat";
open NEW_DESTINATION_FILE, ">new_tmptravl.dat" or die "new_tmptravl.dat";
while (<DESTINATION_FILE>)
{
# print... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I have few lines like
A20120101.ANU.ZIP
A20120401.ABC.ZIP
A20120105.KJK.ZIP
A20120809.JUG.ZIP
A20120101.MAT.ZIP
B20120301.ANU.XIP
I want to filter by
1. Files starting with A and Ending With Z ( ^A.*.ZIP$)
2. And either ANU, or KJK or MAT in the file name.
Hope my... (6 Replies)
I want to track only below:
I am using below, but it doesn't work: (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: proactiveaditya
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lessecho
LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
SEE ALSO less(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 444: 09 Jun 2011 LESSECHO(1)