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pcock

03-19-2009 10:03 PM

[SOLVED] regular expression comma between brackets

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

Thanks

ta0kira

03-19-2009 10:26 PM

I always find it easier to force extended regexes with -r for sed or I'll egrep instead of grep:

Code:

sed -r 's/numeric\([0-9]+,[0-9]+\)/real/g'

Kevin Barry

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