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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers More Grep - Regular Expressions Post 82593 by Jombee on Saturday 3rd of September 2005 12:04:47 AM
Old 09-03-2005
More Grep - Regular Expressions
Hey all! I'm trying to search a file and return all instances of a word, let's say 'foo' in this case, as long as it's not a function name. For example:

1) int foo; //OK
2) //'this is totally fooed up' is also OK
3) int foo (int x, int y) //not ok to return

I've tried a lot of regular expressions but none of them work. Always is foo the function returned.

Here's what I think should work (but doesn't):

grep -E "foo[\s]*[\w]*[^(]" <filename

Any ideas as to why it doesn't work?
 

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