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Pattern matching with sed

Hi all,

In the below sentence, I am trying to match title="data under first Double quotes".

Code:

<A title="Puppy Linux 5.0 Released" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/388754/" rel=bookmark><FONT color=#ffffff size=2><STRONG>Puppy Linux 5.0 Released

</STRONG></A><STRONG> &nbsp;|&nbsp; </STRONG>

I am trying with

Code:

sed 's/title=".*"/news/' news

But this is matching title="Puppy Linux 5.0 Released" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/388754/". How to get rid of the greedy nature of regex ?

I came to know that I have to use '?' somewhere to get rid of this, But how ?

Thanks

Rather than "any char" I prefer "any non-terminating char" - when you know the terminating char; double quote in your case.

Code:

sed 's/title="[^"]*"/news/' news

Note that isn't an anchor in this context.

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00 (Post 3979338)

Rather than "any char" I prefer "any non-terminating char" - when you know the terminating char; double quote in your case.

Code:

sed 's/title="[^"]*"/news/' news

Note that isn't an anchor in this context.

Thanks it worked..

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