In <[email protected]>, on 02/06/2012
at 11:25 AM, Bill Godfrey <[email protected]> said:
>Did you try it?
Trying it on a string that you know it handles isn't good enough; try
it on a string where a "Q" appears between the "CD" and the "QR".
>Where a Q appears with some other character after it, before the
>first QR?
It should match CDEFGNOPQSXXXPPPPABCDEFGNOPQR; instead it matches only
CDEFGNOPQR.
>It skips to the one that has the first QR, as it should.
It also skips past the first CD, which it shouldn't.
>echo "QQQQABCDEFGNOPQSXXXPPPPABCDEFGNOPQRYYYOOOOABCDEFGNOPQRZZZ" |
>awk 'sub(/CD[^Q]*QR/,"junkt")'
echo "QQQQABCDEQFGNOPQSXXXPPPPABCDEQFGNOPQRYYYOOOOABCDEQFGNOPQRZZZ" |
awk 'sub(/CD[^Q]*QR/,"junkt")'
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