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Old 06-15-2010
Java filtering out duplicate substrings, regex string from a string
My input contains a single word lines.
From each line
Quote:
a) I want to remove all text that starts with 'dp' including 'dp'.
Ex: prjgoodBlaBladpgoodBlaBla ---> prjgoodBlaBla
b) Also I want to remove duplicate substrings.
Ex: prjtestBlaBlatestBlaBla ---> prjtestBlaBla
Logic I have in mind but having hard time implementing: Take 4 thru 10 characters [testBla] , if its found in the string, remove all text starting from second occurance of it.
data.txt
Code:
 
prjtestBlaBlatestBlaBla
prjthisBlaBlathisBlaBla
prjthatBlaBladpthatBlaBla
prjgoodBlaBladpgoodBlaBla
prjgood1BlaBla123dpgood1BlaBla123


Desired output -->
data_out.txt
Code:
 
prjtestBlaBla
prjthisBlaBla
prjthatBlaBla
prjgoodBlaBla
prjgood1BlaBla123

I am able to get part a) of my requirement working using following,,
Code:
 
> sed 's/dp\(.*\)\..*/\1/' data.txt
prjtestBlaBlatestBlaBla
prjthisBlaBlathisBlaBla
prjthatBlaBladpthatBlaBla
prjgoodBlaBladpgoodBlaBla
prjgood1BlaBla123dpgood1BlaBla123

but not part b).
Last edited by kchinnam; 06-15-2010 at 12:19 PM.. Reason: formatting changes
# 2  
Old 06-15-2010
Code:
perl -pe 's/dp.*// || s/(\w+)\1/\1/' data.txt

Last edited by bartus11; 06-15-2010 at 12:42 PM.. Reason: little mistake in code, now should be fine
# 3  
Old 06-15-2010
bart, its working.. Thanks for the solution..

Can you explain what does || and (\w+) do ?

Can we get it working using sed !? can someone help ?

Code:
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sed -e 's/dp.*//' -e 's/(\w+)\1/\1/' data.txt
sed: command garbled: s/(\w+)\1/\1/

# 4  
Old 06-15-2010
I don't know how to make it work in sed. "||" works as "exclusive or" in perl so it checks if first command was successful, and if it was then second one is not processed. (\w+)\1 matches first occurance of consecutive duplicate strings (it is extension of "(\w)\1", which would match consecutive duplicate characters, like "aa","bb" and so on).
# 5  
Old 06-15-2010
Thanks bart.

Does anyone know how to do this using sed ? does any other shell in Unix recognize (\w+) as consecutive duplicate strings?
# 6  
Old 06-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kchinnam
Thanks bart.

Does anyone know how to do this using sed ? does any other shell in Unix recognize (\w+) as consecutive duplicate strings?
It is not just (w+), but (w+)\1. That "\1" is important, as it matches string matched before by (\w+). In other words "\1" matches the duplicated part.
# 7  
Old 06-15-2010
Does anyone know how to achieve this using sed ?
Code:
perl -pe 's/dp.*// || s/(\w+)\1/\1/' data.txt

Last edited by vgersh99; 06-15-2010 at 04:54 PM.. Reason: code tags, please!
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