Hello, 2010/4/11 Chris Watkins <[email protected]>: > This is as more about the learning process than the actual task... but I > can't see what's wrong with my regex, and I'd appreciate any pointers. > > I want to find cases where a header is not followed by a line break, e.g. > > "== External links ==;http://www.americanbamboo.org/GeneralInfo.html > > I tried various regex strings, including "([\r\n]==[^\n=]*==)([^=\r ])" > (allowing for the fact that excess spaces on the end aren't important) to > be replaced by "\\1\n\\2" > > But I get many false matches. See http://www.pastie.org/913753 for details > of the good and the false matches. > > > In #regex on freenode I was told to try: > "s/((={2,}).*?\2)(?!\n)([^=]?)/\1\n\2/g" but it gives the error: "bash: !\n: > event not found".
Regarding this particular issue, you should read http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#echo_.22Hello_World.21.22 Using single quotes instead of double quotes should work. Or just put "set +o histexpand" in your .bashrc ... > > I'm told that it works - http://pastie.org/913765 - but in my terminal I > can't get past the bash error. > > > Thanks! > > -- > Chris Watkins > > Appropedia.org - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. > > blogs.appropedia.org > community.livejournal.com/appropedia > identi.ca/appropedia > twitter.com/appropedia > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > -- Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
