Re: [PLUG] regexp assistance please

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

Stephen Gran wrote:

> I am trying to write a regexp that lets me use grep (or really, egrep)
> to read a standard conffile-style file.  This means that I want to
> ignore any line that begins with a comment (for which I am currently
> only allowing the use of #), any line that is just a newline, and any
> line that is just whitespace (we don't need to worry about the
> possibility of multiline strings in this case).  I can come up with
> egrep -v '^#|^$' to ignore comments and _only_ newlines, but I would
> also like to ignore unseen whitespace (like \s*) - [:space:] just doesn't 
> seem to be working for me.  Can somebody whack me with a cluebat?
>
>  
I know this isn't what you want to do, but I usually just put variables 
directly into the file and include the file in the main program.  That 
way there is no need to parse anything. 

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