On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:59:55AM +0000, Craig Tinson wrote: > guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can > help with one.. > > I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: > > (pg. 2) > (pg. 210) > (pg. 211) > (pg. 309) > (pg. 4000) > > etc etc > > what regex pattern would I use? > > TIA > > Craig Hi Craig, are you going to do a simple grep,egrep,perl,... does the pattern have to start at the beginning of the line... (what are the full details of the match)
here is a simple egrep example: egrep "\(pg\. .+\)" test.txt translations: find a pattern startring at any point in the line that starts with '(pg. ' + some characater + ending with ')' -Kev
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