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# 1  
Old 12-21-2006
Help with regular expressions

I have following content in the file


CancelPolicyMultiLingual3=U|PC3|EN
RestaurantInfoCode1=U|restID1|1
.....

I am trying to use following matching extression

\|([^$]+)

to get this

PC3|EN
restID1|1

Obviously it does not work.
Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 12-21-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by arushunter
I have following content in the file


CancelPolicyMultiLingual3=U|PC3|EN
RestaurantInfoCode1=U|restID1|1
.....

I am trying to use following matching extression

\|([^$]+)

to get this

PC3|EN
restID1|1

Obviously it does not work.
Any ideas?

Here's one way.....
awk -F "|" '{print $2"|"$3}' test.txt

Kent
# 3  
Old 12-21-2006
Try this:
Code:
$
$ echo "CancelPolicyMultiLingual3=U|PC3|EN
> RestaurantInfoCode1=U|restID1|1"  |  sed  's=[^|]*\(|.*\)=\1='
|PC3|EN
|restID1|1
$

# 4  
Old 12-21-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by arushunter
I have following content in the file


CancelPolicyMultiLingual3=U|PC3|EN
RestaurantInfoCode1=U|restID1|1
.....

I am trying to use following matching extression

\|([^$]+)

to get this

PC3|EN
restID1|1

Obviously it does not work.
Any ideas?
Here's another....
$ grep -o \|.*\|.* test.txt
# 5  
Old 12-21-2006
One more..... The grep one wasn't quite what you were looking for.

$ perl -nle 'while(m/\|(.*)/g){print "$1"}' test.txt

Kent
# 6  
Old 12-21-2006
Alternative in Python. No regular expression
Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
for line in open("file.txt"):
  print '|'.join(line.strip().split("|")[-2:])

# 7  
Old 12-22-2006
Code:
cut -d"|" -f2,3 file

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