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Old 08-10-2012
[SOLVED] SED: Pattern repitition regex matching
Fairly straightforward, but I'm having an awful time getting what I thought was a simple regex to work. I'll give the command I was playing with, and I'm aware why this one doesn't work (the 1,3 is off the A-Z, not the whole expression), I just don't know what the fix is:

Actual Output(s):
Code:
$ echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/[0-9][A-Z]\{1,3\}/X/g'
This is a test XXX X XX
$ echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/[0-9][A-Z]\{1,3\}/X/' 
This is a test X2B9C 0A 3B4C

Desired Output:
Code:
This is a test X X X

Thanks, just banging my head on this one.
Last edited by Vryali; 08-10-2012 at 02:57 PM..
# 2  
Old 08-10-2012
It's considering [0-9] and [A-Z] as separate ranges. So what you're asking for is actually a number, followed by one to three letters.

Try [0-9A-Z]
# 3  
Old 08-10-2012
I think he's looking for 1, 2, or 3 occurrence of a digit followed by an uppercase letter:
Code:
echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/\([0-9][A-Z]\)\{1,3\}/X/g'

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Vryali
# 4  
Old 08-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
I think he's looking for 1, 2, or 3 occurrence of a digit followed by an uppercase letter:
Code:
echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/\([0-9][A-Z]\)\{1,3\}/X/g'

Thanks so much, that's what I was looking for.

Edit: It works on Linux & AIX (Pretty sure it's running off GNU SED), doesn't work on Solaris by default. Any tips on Solaris, or alternate syntax? If it's not possible without GNU SED that's fine, just checking up.

Code:
# uname -s
SunOS
# echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/\([0-9][A-Z]\)\{1,3\}/X/g'
This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C

vs. Linux
Code:
$ uname -s
Linux
$ echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/\([0-9][A-Z]\)\{1,3\}/X/g'
This is a test X X X

vs. AIX:
Code:
# uname -s
AIX
# rpm -qa|grep sed
sed-4.1.1-1
# echo "This is a test 0A2B9C 0A 3B4C" | sed 's/\([0-9][A-Z]\)\{1,3\}/X/g'     
This is a test X X X

# 5  
Old 08-10-2012
I no longer have ready access to a Solaris system, but:
Code:
sed 's/\([0-9][A-Z]\)\{1,3\}/X/g'

is using standard Basic Regular Expression notation. If /usr/bin/sed doesn't work, you might try /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, but I don't see anything in Oracle's Solaris 11 sed(1) man page indicating that this substitute command shouldn't work in both versions of sed.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Vryali
# 6  
Old 08-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
If /usr/bin/sed doesn't work, you might try /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, but I don't see anything in Oracle's Solaris 11 sed(1) man page indicating that this substitute command shouldn't work in both versions of sed.
Definitely doesn't work off-the-bat with 10, at least - however I didn't know about the xpg4 binaries and that version of sed -did- work, so I'm good to go. Thanks a lot!
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