On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 13:26, Craig Tinson wrote: > guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can > help with one.. perl has some good regex tutorials. man perlretut and man perlrequick (I think) should get you slightly more familiar. > I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: > > (pg. 2) > (pg. 210) > (pg. 211) > (pg. 309) > (pg. 4000) > > etc etc > > what regex pattern would I use? It depends on what program you're using thats asking for the regex. perl, emacs, grep, less? \(pg[.] [\d]+\) would probably work in perl, whereas (pg[.] [0-9]+) would probably work in emacs. And don't forget to read up on regex's. Once you've grasped them, you'll start doing everything with regex's! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iain pcorp nospam com au> Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
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