Re: regexp: anything but |

[Chris Jackson <c.jackson@shadowcat.co.uk>]

lee wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:34PM +0000, Chris Jackson wrote:
> > To match anything except |, use:
> >
> > [^|]
>
> Thanks! That's nice, but the pattern '\^.*\|[^\|]-[0-9]\|' still
> matches all lines ... and I don't see why/how it could to that
> ... Hmm. Here's an example line:
>
>
> TV|VOX-1|167(2)|136(ger),|71|12060|1089|SAstra-1H|12187|27500|h|34|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|2120|||1|
>
>
> <start of line> <anything> <pipe> <anything but pipe> -[-0] <pipe>
> should match above line. But why does it match
>
>
> TV|VOX|167(2)|136(ger),|71|12060|1089|SAstra-19.2E|12187|27500|h|34|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|473|||1|


If you're in sed:

'/^[^|]*|[^|]*-[0-9]|/'

If you aren't using extended regular expressions (sed -r), pipe is not 
special. Also don't escape ^ ;)

Note that from the shell this is in single quote marks to stop shell 
expansions. Doing it without those would be masochism ;)

--
Chris Jackson