How does this sed expression to remove non-alpha characters work?
Hello!
I know that this expression gets rid of non-alphanumeric characters:
and I understand that it is replacing them with nothing - hence the '//'-, but I don't understand how it's doing it.
It seems it's finding strings that begin with alphanumeric and replacing them with nothing! Obviously that would not give the required output so I'm a little confused and clearly missing something...
Thanks for your help!
Last edited by Don Cragun; 07-24-2013 at 01:48 PM..
Reason: Added CODE tags.
Hi,
Sorry for silly question, but I'm trying to write a perl script to operate a log file that is in following format:
(4)ab=1234/(10)bc=abcdef9876/cd=0....
The number in the brackets is the lenghts of the field, "/" is the field separator. Brackets are not leading every field.
What I'm... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
Suppose I have a file with the contents below, and I only want to print words %S_ then | sort -u.
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The %S_MSG that starts with '%.*s' is too long. Maximum length is %d.
The %S_MSG name '%.*s' contains more than the maximum number of prefixes. The... (5 Replies)
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@HWUSI-EAS656_0044_FC:7:1:2447:1039#GCAATT/1
GNCTATGGCTTGCCGGGCTCAGGGAAGACAATCATAGCCATGAAAATCATGGAAAAGATCAGAAAAACATTTCAA
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Hi All,
I am new to Unix and trying to run some scripting on a linux box. I am trying to remove the non alphanumeric characters and alpha characters from the following line.
<measResults>883250 869.898 86432.4 809875.22 804609 60023 59715 </measResults>
Desired output is:
883250... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to Sed and would like to know if it is possible to remove the characters .
I have a couple of files with a keyword and would like to remove the substring.
I am Using sed s/// but Its not working
Thanks for your Support
Andrew Borg (2 Replies)
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tail -f LOG | sed -n /"$@"/p
So whatever value I pass into this script will tail -f the file, but only show me lines that contain the value:
lgwatch expression
However some of the output contains a #20 control... (8 Replies)
I had a string in perl script as below.
Tue Augáá7 03:54:12 2012
Now I need to replace the special character with space.
After removing the special chaacters
Tue Aug 7 03:54:12 2012
Could anyone please help me here for writing the regular expression?
Thanks in advance..
Regards,
GS (1 Reply)
Greetings..
getting the error while execution of the script, correct where i am missing
#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d:::%H:%M`
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
TXT="/log/temp.txt"
LOGPATH="/log1/commanlogs/"
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Discussion started by: manju98458
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
ctype_alnum
CTYPE_ALNUM(3) 1 CTYPE_ALNUM(3)ctype_alnum - Check for alphanumeric character(s)SYNOPSIS
bool ctype_alnum (string $text)
DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, are alphanumeric.
PARAMETERS
o $text
- The tested string.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text is either a letter or a digit, FALSE otherwise.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A ctype_alnum(3) example (using the default locale)
<?php
$strings = array('AbCd1zyZ9', 'foo!#$bar');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
if (ctype_alnum($testcase)) {
echo "The string $testcase consists of all letters or digits.
";
} else {
echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all letters or digits.
";
}
}
?>
The above example will output:
The string AbCd1zyZ9 consists of all letters or digits.
The string foo!#$bar does not consist of all letters or digits.
NOTES
Note
If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative val-
ues have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string contain-
ing the decimal digits of the integer.
SEE ALSO ctype_alpha(3), ctype_digit(3), setlocale(3).
PHP Documentation Group CTYPE_ALNUM(3)