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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl - Regular Expressions - Match complete word only Post 302602993 by balajesuri on Tuesday 28th of February 2012 11:55:02 PM
Old 02-29-2012
Code:
[root@hostname dir]# cat lookup_file
Bell Earn, Jr
hawks
Arizona Cardinals
[root@hostname dir]#
[root@hostname dir]# cat input_file_with_piped_strings
xxx|yyy|Arizona Cardinals| Tell Cardinals | Cardinals
bbb|Bell Earn, Jr | Bell Earn | Jayhawks | hawks
[root@hostname dir]#
[root@hostname dir]# perl -ne 'chomp ($line = $_); $line=~ s/(\w)\|/$1 |/g; $line =~ s/\|(\w)/| $1/g;
open F1, "< lookup_file";
for $p (<F1>) { chomp($p); $line =~ s/\| $p\s?//g }
print "$line\n"' input_file_with_piped_strings
xxx | yyy | Tell Cardinals | Cardinals
bbb | Bell Earn | Jayhawks
[root@hostname dir]#
[root@hostname dir]#

 

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