Re: Silly little regex question

[Eric d'Alibut <eric.halibut@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:40:48 +0100, Dan Roozemond <dan+debian@banaan.org> wrote:

> or inside a shell script you might use:
> T=`date +%j | sed 's/^0\+\(.*\)/\1/'`

Ok; I may use that.
 
> If you insist on using this shell construction, it will look like:
> T=`date +%j`
> U=${T##"0"}
> echo $U

I get different results:

bash-2.05b$ yearday="002" ; echo ${yearday##"0"}
02
 
> > where substring is a regex.

> This sentence makes me think I misunderstood your question.

I don't think you've misunderstood. The sentence is from here:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html


Best,

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