Re: [chat] prob with regex

[Michael Lake <mikel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Green suggested in response to...

> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:03, Michael Lake wrote:
>>I am having some minor prob with a regex - I think my first .* is 
>>gobbling up the remainder of the expression.
>>I have a text file like this:
>>PAVEY AUASF020388
>>PAVEY,A AUASF02389
>>PAVEY,A AUASF02390       <-- just a comma then A
>>PAVEY,A. AUASF02391      <-- this one has a full stop


> I can highly recommend a package called txt2regex 
> (http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/)

Looks good. Its already apt-get installed :-)

"Description: A Regular Expression "wizard", all written with bash2 
builtins ^txt2regex$ is a Regular Expression "wizard", all written with 
bash2 builtins, that converts human sentences to RegExs. With a simple 
interface, you just answer to questions and build your own RegEx for a 
large variety of programs, like awk, emacs, grep, perl, php, procmail, 
python, sed and vim. There are more than 20 supported programs."

Mike
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Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.



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