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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Accepting a phrase and counting the number of times that it is repeated in a specific website Post 302879409 by bakunin on Thursday 12th of December 2013 10:07:33 AM
Old 12-12-2013
I am not sure if this is within the scope of your homework, but will probably have to escape several characters to make your regexp more robust.

Here is an example you can try to see the problem:

Code:
This is the inputfile.
This is a line
A line not containing the word "i s".

Code:
# search="is"
# grep -c "$search" /path/to/inputfile
2

So far, so good. Let us search for full stops. There are 2 lines with a full stop (1 and 3):

Code:
# search="."
# grep -c "$search" /path/to/inputfile
3

Obviously wrong, no? Contemplate the reason why and find out how to correct that.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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QBOOBMSG(1)						      General Commands Manual						       QBOOBMSG(1)

NAME

       qboobmsg - Qt application to read an reply to messages on various websites

SYNOPSIS

       qboobmsg [-h] [-dqv] [-b backends] ...
       qboobmsg [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Qt application allowing to read messages on various websites and reply to them.

   Supported websites:
       * aum ("Adopte un Mec" French dating website)
       * bnporc (BNP Paribas French bank website)
       * bouygues (Bouygues Telecom French mobile phone provider)
       * dlfp (Da Linux French Page news website)
       * ecrans (Ecrans French news website)
       * fourchan (4chan image board)
       * hds (Histoires de Sexe French erotic novels)
       * inrocks (Les Inrocks French news website)
       * lefigaro (Le Figaro French newspaper website)
       * minutes20 (2 Minutes French newspaper website)
       * newsfeed (Loads RSS and Atom feeds from any website)
       * okc (OkCupid dating website)
       * orange (Orange French mobile phone provider)
       * phpbb (phpBB forum)
       * presseurop (Presseurop website)
       * sfr (SFR French mobile phone provider)
       * taz (Taz newspaper website)

OPTIONS

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -b BACKENDS, --backends=BACKENDS
	      what backend(s) to enable (comma separated)

LOGGING OPTIONS

       -d, --debug
	      display debug messages

       -q, --quiet
	      display only error messages

       -v, --verbose
	      display info messages

       --logging-file=LOGGING_FILE
	      file to save logs

       -a, --save-responses
	      save every response

COPYRIGHT

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       For full COPYRIGHT see COPYING file with weboob package.

FILES

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SEE ALSO

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