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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to specify beginning-of-line/end-of-line characters inside a regex range Post 302659201 by gary_w on Wednesday 20th of June 2012 01:31:58 PM
Old 06-20-2012
I believe some versions of sed allow a logical or. Mine does not. Try this:

Code:
sed 's/^test\||test/found_it/g' filename

If portability is a concern, you might want to stick with something like this:
Code:
sed 's/|test/FOUND/g;s/^test/FOUND/g' filename

 

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regex.h

regex.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							    regex.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       regex.h, regex - regular expression matching types

SYNOPSIS

       #include <regex.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The  <regex.h>  header defines the structures and symbolic constants used by the regcomp(), regexec(), regerror(), and regfree() functions.
       See regcomp(3C).

       The structure type regex_t contains the following member:

	 size_t re_nsub     number of parenthesized subexpressions

       The type size_t is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).

       The type regoff_t is defined as a signed integer type that can hold the largest value that can be stored in either a  type  off_t  or  type
       ssize_t. The structure type regmatch_t contains the following members:

	 regoff_t rm_so     byte offset from start of string to start
			    of substring
	 regoff_t rm_eo     byte offset from start of string of the
			    first character after the end of substring

       Values for the cflags parameter to the regcomp function are as follows:

       REG_EXTENDED    use extended regular expressions

       REG_ICASE       ignore case in match

       REG_NOSUB       report only success or fail in regexec()

       REG_NEWLINE     change the handling of NEWLINE character

       Values for the eflags parameter to the regexec() function are as follows:

       REG_NOTBOL    The circumflex character (^), when taken as a special character, does not match the beginning of string.

       REG_NOTEOL    The dollar sign ($), when taken as a special character, does not match the end of string.

       The following constants are defined as error return values:

       REG_NOMATCH     regexec() failed to match.

       REG_BADPAT      Invalid regular expression.

       REG_ECOLLATE    Invalid collating element referenced.

       REG_ECTYPE      Invalid character class type referenced.

       REG_EESCAPE     Trailing '' in pattern.

       REG_ESUBREG     Number in fIdigit invalid or in error.

       REG_EBRACK      "[]" imbalance.

       REG_EPAREN      "()" or "()" imbalance.

       REG_EBRACE      "" imbalance.

       REG_BADBR       Content of "" invalid: not a  number, number too large, more than two numbers, first larger than second.

       REG_ERANGE      Invalid endpoint in range expression.

       REG_ESPACE      Out of memory.

       REG_BADRPT      '?', '*', or '+' not preceded by valid regular expression.

       REG_ENOSYS      Reserved.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       regcomp(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    9 Sep 2004							    regex.h(3HEAD)
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