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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk regexp to print repetitive pattern Post 302977448 by yifangt on Monday 18th of July 2016 12:13:51 PM
Old 07-18-2016
It started to deviate from my original question, and before it goes too far, I accept the answer by RudiC
Quote:
Can I say there is no regexp for this case in awk, similar to your perl script ?
Code:
perl -e '{print "-\t"x11, "-\n"}'

You seem to be caught in an error: regexes exist for searching/matching purposes ONLY. You can't print them. For printing a repetitive pattern, you need to type it as is, use a loop, or fall back to tricks as posted before.
Thanks again for all your replies.

Last edited by yifangt; 07-18-2016 at 01:21 PM..
 

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Regexp::Common::lingua(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Regexp::Common::lingua(3)

NAME
Regexp::Common::lingua -- provide regexes for language related stuff. SYNOPSIS
use Regexp::Common qw /lingua/; while (<>) { /^$RE{lingua}{palindrome}$/ and print "is a palindrome "; } DESCRIPTION
Please consult the manual of Regexp::Common for a general description of the works of this interface. Do not use this module directly, but load it via Regexp::Common. $RE{lingua}{palindrome} Returns a pattern that recognizes a palindrome, a string that is the same if you reverse it. By default, it only matches strings consisting of letters, but this can be changed using the "{-chars}" option. This option takes a character class (default is "[A-Za-z]") as argument. If "{-keep}" is used, only $1 will be set, and set to the entire match. This pattern requires at least perl 5.6.0. SEE ALSO
Regexp::Common for a general description of how to use this interface. AUTHOR
Damian Conway (damian@conway.org) MAINTAINANCE
This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.be). BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
Many regexes are missing. Send them in to regexp-common@abigail.be. LICENSE and COPYRIGHT This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2009, Damian Conway and Abigail. This module is free software, and maybe used under any of the following licenses: 1) The Perl Artistic License. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL. 2) The Perl Artistic License 2.0. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL2. 3) The BSD Licence. See the file COPYRIGHT.BSD. 4) The MIT Licence. See the file COPYRIGHT.MIT. perl v5.16.2 2010-02-23 Regexp::Common::lingua(3)
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