-l "chomps" $_ variable, meaning it removes only last newline. To remove newlines that are inside of the input string, s// has to be used.
Code:
while(/(.*?)$x/g){
This is a bit tricky piece. It is matching sequentially on $_ variable, and when match is found, the body of while loop is executed. So for each match in a string, the code of while's body will be executed. print ((length $1) + 1 + $sumIt will print starting position of the searched pattern. It is achieved by getting the number of characters before that string - length $1 ($1 stores match of the red part in regular expresion). To make it possible to print subsequent positions (after first match), the number of characters from the beginning of the string has to be saved. It is done by $sum. ((length $&) + $sum)This will calculate ending position of pattern to search ($& is a variable containing whole string matched by the regex, so length $& will get number of characters before searched pattern + length of that pattern. $sum+=length $&As I wrote before, $sum is saving the number of characters that regex already passed through.
Hi,
I need to insert strings "0000 00" at the each line within the file.
The postion is 37 to 42.
ex.
name1 name2 0000 00
nam name 0000 00
The "0000 00" in two lines should be lined up.
I don't know why it's not lined up when I posted it.
Can anyone help? (14 Replies)
Hi,
I have a challenging task,in which i have to find the duplicate files by its name and size,then i need to take anyone of the file.Then i need to open the file and find for more than one pattern and count of that pattern.
Note:These are the samples of two files,but i can have more... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have this input file called ttbitnres (which is catenated and sorted):-
8 0.4444 213
10 0.5555 342
11 0.5555 321
12 0.5555 231
13 0.4444 400
My code is at :-
#!/bin/bash
echo -e Version "\t" Number of Pass "\t" Number of Fail "\t" Rank Position "\t"Min "\t" Max... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I would like to find an efficient way to compare a pair of strings that differ at one position, and return the difference and position.
For example:
String1 123456789
String2 123454789
returning something - position 6, 6/4
Thanks in advance,
Mike (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need to search for some strings in specific positions in a file.
If the strings: "foo1", "foo2" or "foo3" is on position 266 or position 288 in a file i want the whole line printed.
Any idea how to do it? (5 Replies)
HI All,
am trying to find the position of space in a variable, it is working for other characters other than space
ulab="ulab1|ulab2"
find_pos=`expr index $ulab '|'`
echo $find_pos
above code worked fine but below one says syntax error
ulab="ulab ulab2"
find_pos=`expr index $ulab ' '`... (2 Replies)
i have a requirement like this
if the line contains from position 294 to 299 is equal to "prabhu" ,then print entire line .
i want to use awk
awk '{if(substr(294-299) == 'prabhu') print "line" }' filename (1 Reply)
I am not an expert with linux, but following various posts on this forum, I have been trying to write a script to match pattern of charters occurring together in a file.
My file has approximately 200 million characters (upper and lower case), with about 50 characters per line. I have merged all... (5 Replies)
I am using bash in Fedora 30
From the below lines (ls -l output), how can I print whatever is between the strings 'status_' and '.log'
$ ls -l | grep -i status
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sysadmin sysadmin 378530 Nov 11 21:58 status_vsbm1.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sysadmin sysadmin 428776 Nov 11 21:58... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: kraljic
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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)