Well, awk has not one regex but one command, which is nicer formatted, and you can use sed, which is faster, generally and because it doe not evaluate regex if the line is done=dead, and the list of patterns can be of any length, easily viewed:
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If you want just regex not commands, you are probably out of luck. The searches are too unrelated for one regex. What context do you want to use it in, if not a command?
or I don't know how to make it work ...
Hello
im trying to build regexp that will match me single string or function call inside of brackets
for example I have :
<% myFunction("blah",foo) %>
or
<% myVar %>
and not match :
<% if(myFunction("blah",foo)==1) %>
or
<% while(myvar < 3){... (2 Replies)
Hi everybody
for file in *
#Bash performs filename expansion
#+ on expressions that globbing recognizes.
do
output="`grep -n "$1" "$file"`"
echo "$file: `expr "$output" : '\(^.*$\)'`"
done
In the above bash script segment, I try to print just the first line of string named... (3 Replies)
Hi. Here's a tricky one (at least to me):
I have a file named theFile.txt (UTF-8) that contains the following:
a
b
cWhen I execute
perl -pe 's|a.*c|d|sg' theFile.txtin bash 3.2 on MAC OS X 10.6, I get no match, i.e. the result is
a
b
cagain. Any clues why? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I searched in the forums, but I didn't find a good solution. My problem is:
I have a string like "TEST.ABC201005.MONTHLY.D101010203".
I just want to have the string until the D100430, so that the string should look like: "TEST.ABC201005.MONTHLY.D"
The last characters after the D can be... (8 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I'm new in tcl scripting.
I'm currently studying a tcl script and came across this line:
regexp {(\d+)(\S?)} $opts match opt swi
According to my understanding, this line means to search in the opts variable for one or more digit, followed by a non-whitespace character... (2 Replies)
I'm probably just not thinking of the correct term to search for :-) But I want to match a pattern that might be 'ABC' or '1ABC' there might be three characters, or there might be four, but if there are four, the first has to be 1 (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a file fo around 15k bytes which i need to insert a string " + "at every 250 bytes.
I found some ideas here using perl to split into lines and tried to addapt it but the results where not satisfactory
for instance i tried to change
#!/usr/bin/perl
$teststring =... (9 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I am in AIX; I have a file generated through awk after processing the input files. Now I need to replace or remove the new-line characters on all lines that doesn't have a ; which is the last character on the line. I tried to use sed 's/\n/ /g' After checking through the... (6 Replies)
For a given string that may contain any ASCII chars, i.e. that matches .*,
find and print only the chars that are in a given subset.
The string could also have numbers, uppercase, special chars such as ~!@#$%^&*(){}\", whatever a user could type in
without going esoteric
For simplicity take... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I need to print the characters in the previous line just before the regular expression match
Please have a look at the input file as attached
I need to match the regular expression ^ with the character of the previous like and also the pin numbers
and the output file should be like... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kshitij
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)