Re: Finding the common textual denominator

[Maximiliano Combina <maxicombina@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 02:16 +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> Can anyone help me with how to find the common textual denominator of an 
> array of strings. I have been searching the web and the man pages of 
> grep, awk etc to no avail.
> 
> Given the following list of directory names I want to have a script return 
> "Eric_Clapton".
> 
> Eric_Clapton-Big_Boss_Man-2CD-Retail-2002-DGN/
> Eric_Clapton-Higher_Ground-(CDS)-2003-RNS/
> Eric_Clapton_-_Me_and_Mr_Johnson-(PROPER)-CD-2004-TN/
> Eric_Clapton-One_More_Car_One_More_Rider-2CD-2002-RNS/
> Eric_Clapton - Pilgrim/
> 
> Regards
> Olle

i hve read all the thread.
the common textual denominator you are looking for... is always at the
beginning?
a more interesting problem (i dont konw if useful) is to search the
denominator _anywhere_ in the strings.
for example:
aa XXXgg
bb fgXXXbb
ffgj XXX hhss

should return XXX

regards
maxi
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