Regular Expression help

chibi2666 · 11-09-2008, 08:59 PM

Hi guys,

I need help with this problem,

I am trying to write a regular expression that will match the following line's City, ST 12345

I tried grep -i -E "([a-z][a-z]|1-5)" iwashere is the file name

Does this look correct or could you show me another way to write this. Any help would be great. Thank you

sycamorex · 11-09-2008, 09:47 PM

Code:

cat iwashere | sed -n '/[A-Za-z],[ ]ST[ ][0-9]/p'

I'm not a sed expert, but it matches your line. It might not be what you want. What are other lines in the file? Are they all starting with 'City'? Do they all include 'ST'? If you tell us more about the context, it'll be easier to answer.

chibi2666 · 11-09-2008, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex

Code:

cat iwashere | sed -n '/[A-Za-z],[ ]ST[ ][0-9]/p'

I'm not a sed expert, but it matches your line. It might not be what you want. What are other lines in the file? Are they all starting with 'City'? Do they all include 'ST'? If you tell us more about the context, it'll be easier to answer.

HI,

Thanks for the reply

It would be like

Chico,CA 95928
Seattle,WA 42178
Miami,FL 12345
City can be more than one word and ST is two capital letters

Sorry I'm still new hope this helps

I think as long as it will match the following form

pixellany · 11-09-2008, 10:37 PM

I think you need to show an example of the total content of the file, and of what you would like the final output to look like.