On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10-11-16 04:07 PM, Vincent Li wrote:
>>
>> My aim is to remove specific profile.*{} block from that file
>
> Yes, but if the {} blocks are nestable, then you can't do it with regular
> expressions alone.
>
right, I only have one level nested {}, any tips? when file is slurped
to file mode, the nested {} will look like 'profile foo { foo { foo
} foo }profile bar { bar { bar } bar }profile goo { goo } ', I
tried regex:
{.*?(?:{.*?})?.*?}
but it is not working.
Vincent
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