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Old 03-19-2009, 11:03 PM   #1
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[SOLVED] regular expression comma between brackets

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Hi,

Can someone help show me how do I work this out.
Code:
echo "numeric(16,3)" | sed 's/numeric(\d*\,\d*)/real/g'
Desired output:
Code:
real
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Old 03-19-2009, 11:26 PM   #2
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I always find it easier to force extended regexes with -r for sed or I'll egrep instead of grep:
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sed -r 's/numeric\([0-9]+,[0-9]+\)/real/g'
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