[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This any better? :-)
>
> echo '198.088.0.01
> 198.088.062.01
> 198.088.0.001' | sed -r 's/\.0+([^.0]+)/.\1/g'

I guess it's 'better', but it's still broken:

$ echo '003.4.5.6' | sed -r 's/\.0+([^.0]+)/.\1/g'
003.4.5.6

This is not a good application for a regex.

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