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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to specify start and stop of a search string Post 302657985 by jeepguy on Monday 18th of June 2012 02:29:15 PM
Old 06-18-2012
how to specify start and stop of a search string

I am trying to extract a string from a line of text. Currently I am using

grep -o 'startofstring(.........'

The string is not always the same size.
The string I'm trying to extract starts with 'test(' ends with ')'.

ex "blah,blah,blah,test(stringoftext),blah blah"

How do I specify to grep to start with 'test(' and stop with ')' ????

Also, sometimes this string exists more than once in the same text string.
How do I restrict it to only match on the first one ?

Thanks.
 

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XmTextFindString(library call)											    XmTextFindString(library call)

NAME
XmTextFindString -- A Text function that finds the beginning position of a text string SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h> Boolean XmTextFindString( Widget widget, XmTextPosition start, char *string, XmTextDirection direction, XmTextPosition *position); DESCRIPTION
XmTextFindString locates the beginning position of a specified text string. This routine searches forward or backward for the first occur- rence of the string starting from the given start position. If it finds a match, the function returns the position of the first character of the string in position. If the match string begins at the current position, this routine returns the current position. widget Specifies the Text widget ID. start Specifies the character position from which the search proceeds. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0 (zero). string Specifies the search string. direction Indicates the search direction. It is relative to the primary direction of the text. The possible values are XmTEXT_FORWARD The search proceeds toward the end of the text buffer. XmTEXT_BACKWARD The search proceeds toward the beginning of the text buffer. position Specifies the pointer in which the first character position of the string match is returned. This is an integer number of charac- ters from the beginning of the buffer. The first character position is 0 (zero). If the function returns False, this value is undefined. For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3). RETURN
Returns True if a string match is found; otherwise, returns False. RELATED
XmText(3) and XmTextFindStringWcs(3). XmTextFindString(library call)
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