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Old 10-22-2008
sed-question delete everthing after a couple of numbers
Hi,

I've a textfile with a lots of numbers. After some numbers are comments.
I want delete these comments with sed, but dont know the correct pattern.

for example (my textfile):
PHP Code:
3202 mycomment
292-is way to low
1#correct
3  #my whitespace comment
4229 // comment
20.201 // numbers with dots are also in my file
202.02 miaumiau
1.234.99 '''''''FOO 
So I want to delete ALL stuff after ne last number ...

correct ouput:
PHP Code:
3202
292
1
3
4229
20.201
202.02
1.234.99 
# 2  
Old 10-22-2008
Code:
sed 's/\(^[\.0-9]*\)[^.0-9]*/\1/g' infile

# 3  
Old 10-22-2008
thanks a lot
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