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Old 04-21-2013
Regex to identify word in second position on a line
I am interested in finding a regex to find a word in second position on a line. The word in question is या
I tried the following PERL EXPRESSION but it did not work:
Code:
[^[:word:]] या 
or
^\W या

But both gave Null results
I am giving below a Sample file:
Code:
देना या सौंपना=delegate
तह जमना या जमाना=film
झुकना या झुकाना=slant
घुलना या घोलना=dissolve
घिसना या घिसाना=grate
खुले आम या प्रकट=avow
एड़ लगाना या देना=spur
उभरना या उभारना=heave
उचकाना या झाड़ना=shrug
आना या कुछ करना=mistime
हो जाना या होना=orient
होना या हो जाना=double
लिखना या लगाना=preface
बल या शिकन पड़ना=cockle

I would like the REGEX to single out all lines where the word या occurs in second position.
Many thanks for the help.
# 2  
Old 04-21-2013
I am somewhat at a handicap because of the script. Maybe time I learned. Smilie Anyway, maybe the following explanations will solve for you:

[^[:word:]] means a single character that is NOT a word character.
^[[:word:]] means a single word character at start of line.

^\W means a NON-word character at beginning of line.
^\w means a word character at beginning of line.
# 3  
Old 04-21-2013
Maybe too simplistic an approach, but try
Code:
$ awk '$2=="या"' file
देना या सौंपना=delegate
झुकना या झुकाना=slant
घुलना या घोलना=dissolve
घिसना या घिसाना=grate
उभरना या उभारना=heave
उचकाना या झाड़ना=shrug
आना या कुछ करना=mistime
होना या हो जाना=double
लिखना या लगाना=preface
बल या शिकन पड़ना=cockle

# 4  
Old 04-21-2013
Many thanks the Awk script worked, but I am still curious about finding a regex to identify the position of a word in a string
# 5  
Old 04-21-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by gimley
... I am still curious about finding a regex to identify the position of a word in a string
Try:
Code:
perl -ne 'print if /^(\S+)\sया(\s|$)/'

or
Code:
perl -ne 'print if /^((\S+)\s+){1}या(\s|$)/'

The word boundary \b does not seem to fly here..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-21-2013 at 03:38 PM..
# 6  
Old 04-21-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
The word boundary \b does not seem to fly here..
\b will work with the -CD command-line switch. But, then you'll need to be careful about what \w and \W will match.
# 7  
Old 04-21-2013
If the environment variables are correctly set, I believe that use locale; or -Mlocale would inform perl on how to interpret character classes.

Please do not mistake me for a competent perl hacker.

EDIT: I was just skimming through perllocale. Wow. What a mess. Long story short, my suggestion may not be safe.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 04-21-2013 at 06:23 PM..
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