using sed; echo 'some eXampel tExt' | sed 's/^[A-Z]//;s/[a-z ]//g'
-- - Shaker On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Al-Faisal El-Dajani < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to write a regular expression, and facing a little problem with > it. I want to find all upper case letters in a string, except that the first > character in the string should be ignored (case insensitive to me). > > Example: "Some eXampel tExt." I want to get the X and the E, but not the S > at the beginning of the string. > > I can get all upper case letters, and ignore the first instance > programmatically, but that is not lazy enough for me. > > I read about "negative look ahead" grouping: ^(?![A-Z]), but I honestly > don't understand how this works, or how to tell it to get the rest of the > upper case letters. > > Any regex gurus care to shed a light here? > > Thanx. > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > 10/6 > > -- > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > http://Jolug.org/ > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > http://ojuba.org/ > > ### Jordan PHP ### > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -- ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP
