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# 1  
Old 02-19-2008
Java extract words with even numbr of letters
Hello All

I need to extract words which are of even number of letters and not greater than 10.

Any help??

Thanks,
Manish
# 2  
Old 02-19-2008
Show us your input and you expected output.
# 3  
Old 02-19-2008
Perhaps something like

Code:
tr " " "\n" < file.txt | sed -n -e "/^[[:alpha:]]\{2\}$/p;/^[[:alpha:]]\{4\}$/p;/^[[:alpha:]]\{6\}$/p;/^[[:alpha:]]\{8\}$/p"

# 4  
Old 02-19-2008
hacky solution:

Code:
 egrep "^..$|^\(..\)$|^......$|^........$" file

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