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Re: [PLUG] regexp assistance please
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > The "[:space:]" needs to occur within a character class, which
> > effectively requires the use of double square brackets. Try:
> >
> > egrep -v '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)'
>
> Ah that explains my problem. Thank you very much. Just to mke sure I
> am parsing your solution correctly, I read this as: if the line begins
> with 0 or more spaces, followed by either # or newline, then ignore it -
> yes? That looks like exactly what I want.
Yup, you got it. Ofcourse, if you'll be doing even further analysis of
the output of the above grep command, you may want to investigate writing
your application in a language more suited to text processing, such as
perl.
-mct
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