On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:29:07 -0600, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Godfrey >> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:19 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Regular Expressions (OMVS) >> ><snip> >> >> try this: >> >> awk 'sub(/CD[^Q]*QR/,"junkt")' >> >> or this: >> >> sed -e 's/CD[^Q]*QR/junkt/' >> >> Bill > >Will work on that specific example. But won't if a Q appears with some other >character after it, before the first QR. > Did you try it? Where a Q appears with some other character after it, before the first QR? I did. It skips to the one that has the first QR, as it should. echo "QQQQABCDEFGNOPQSXXXPPPPABCDEFGNOPQRYYYOOOOABCDEFGNOPQRZZZ" | awk 'sub(/CD[^Q]*QR/,"junkt")' QQQQABCDEFGNOPQSXXXPPPPABjunktYYYOOOOABCDEFGNOPQRZZZ I see that Ken has added to the problem description since my earlier reply. Bill Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
