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Old 04-04-2020, 06:15 AM   #1
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Word That Begin With q and end with k

I have a sentence: the question, did the quick brown foxxxxxx quack wearing nik


Here, I want to extract words starting with q and ending with k using preferably grep.

What I got so far is:

Code:
grep -P "\bq.*?k\b" regex.txt
It yields 2 matches: question, did the quick and quack

How can I yield quick and quack from the sentence using regex?
 
Old 04-04-2020, 06:19 AM   #2
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For the pattern itself, you might need the \w operator instead of .* because the latter would get any characters including spaces.

For grep specifically, take a look at adding the -o option.
 
Old 04-04-2020, 06:20 AM   #3
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you need to replace . (dot) in your regexp, because that will match everything, but you only want to look for words (\w).
 
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Or to put it another way, you need to make the regex non-greedy. I've never seen the need to use (experimental) perlre in grep - that's what perl was invented for ... :shrug:
 
Old 04-04-2020, 06:42 AM   #5
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The solution that is working for me is:

Code:
grep -P "\bq\w*k\b" regex.txt
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