I need help with using grep and regular expressions....
I have a long list of about 1000 lines of Chinese flashcards. Here's a small excerpt:
syntax:
ChineseCharacter ChinesePinYin (EnglishTranslation)
(each has a space to separate it)
In order to import to my flashcards program on my iPod Touch, the information for each side should be seperated by tabs, and not spaces.
What regular expression will allow me to search for spaces outside the parenthesis and replace them with tabs (since I don't want the English text to be messed up)?
Any help is greatly appreciated .
Thanks,
Michael
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Reason: unclear syntax
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
re_exec
RE_COMP(3) BSD Library Functions Manual RE_COMP(3)NAME
re_comp, re_exec -- regular expression handler
LIBRARY
Compatibility Library (libcompat, -lcompat)
SYNOPSIS
#include <re_comp.h>
char *
re_comp(const char *s);
int
re_exec(const char *s);
DESCRIPTION
This interface is made obsolete by regex(3). It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.
The re_comp() function compiles a string into an internal form suitable for pattern matching. The re_exec() function checks the argument
string against the last string passed to re_comp().
The re_comp() function returns 0 if the string s was compiled successfully; otherwise a string containing an error message is returned. If
re_comp() is passed 0 or a null string, it returns without changing the currently compiled regular expression.
The re_exec() function returns 1 if the string s matches the last compiled regular expression, 0 if the string s failed to match the last
compiled regular expression, and -1 if the compiled regular expression was invalid (indicating an internal error).
The strings passed to both re_comp() and re_exec() may have trailing or embedded newline characters; they are terminated by NULs. The regu-
lar expressions recognized are described in the manual entry for ed(1), given the above difference.
DIAGNOSTICS
The re_exec() function returns -1 for an internal error.
The re_comp() function returns one of the following strings if an error occurs:
No previous regular expression,
Regular expression too long,
unmatched (,
missing ],
too many () pairs,
unmatched ).
SEE ALSO ed(1), egrep(1), ex(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), regex(3)HISTORY
The re_comp() and re_exec() functions appeared in 4.0BSD.
BSD June 4, 1993 BSD