On 09.07.2014, Stephen Davies wrote:
2. I hadn't noticed that all lines started with a space.
Way back in 19-something (guess it was 1993) when I poked around with
Powerbasic, I remember there was a function called trim(), which
removed the whitespace on both ends of a string :-)
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:16:21PM +0930, Stephen Davies wrote:
Mea culpa :-(
Twice over in fact.
1. I hadn't noticed that the files in question were all DOS files sent to me
by a windows user ( so trailing $ searches failed) and
2. I hadn't noticed that all lines started with a space.
I have just noticed that regex seems to be broken in my Fedora 20 (just
updated to latest).
Any regex search in vi, gawk, grep -E etc fails.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Stephen Davies
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On 07/08/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
Any ideas?
Any details?
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On 09/07/14 13:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/08/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
Any ideas?
Any details?
For example,
/^xx
or
:g/^xx/s/xx/yy/
in vi finds nothing in a file with many lines starting with xx.
Similarly grep -E ^xx and gawk '/^xx/{print}'.
In all cases, omitting the ^
On 07/09/14 12:21, Stephen Davies wrote:
On 09/07/14 13:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/08/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
Any ideas?
Any details?
For example,
/^xx
or
:g/^xx/s/xx/yy/
in vi finds nothing in a file with many lines starting with xx.
Similarly grep -E ^xx and gawk
Mea culpa :-(
Twice over in fact.
1. I hadn't noticed that the files in question were all DOS files sent to me
by a windows user ( so trailing $ searches failed) and
2. I hadn't noticed that all lines started with a space.
Elderly blindness. Sorry.
Cheers,
Stephen
On 09/07/14 14:08, Ed
