On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:01:20 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@server1.shellworld.net> wrote: > I am trying to remove the & or ampersand sign from some perl > code I wrote as it is not necessary. I have no trouble finding > all the instances because they consist of an ampersand > immediately followed by a letter so &[a-z] describes the case > perfectly. > The replacement pattern should actually be the same as the > search pattern except that it is missing the & or ampersand. > > The scripts have loads of logical &'s and &&'s in them > so the regular expression seems to be the safest way to globally > replace &everything with just everything. In this case, a global > pattern that returned the search pattern missing it's first > letter would even work. $ sed -r 's/&//' test.txt >test.txt.filtered $ cat test.txt.filtered I am trying to remove the or ampersand sign from some perl code I wrote as it is not necessary. I have no trouble finding all the instances because they consist of an ampersand immediately followed by a letter so [a-z] describes the case perfectly. The replacement pattern should actually be the same as the search pattern except that it is missing the or ampersand. The scripts have loads of logical 's and &&'s in them so the regular expression seems to be the safest way to globally replace everything with just everything. In this case, a global pattern that returned the search pattern missing it's first letter would even work. Then: $ sed -r 's/&&//' test.txt.filtered > test.txt.filtered.2 $ cat test.txt.filtered.2 I am trying to remove the or ampersand sign from some perl code I wrote as it is not necessary. I have no trouble finding all the instances because they consist of an ampersand immediately followed by a letter so [a-z] describes the case perfectly. The replacement pattern should actually be the same as the search pattern except that it is missing the or ampersand. The scripts have loads of logical 's and 's in them so the regular expression seems to be the safest way to globally replace everything with just everything. In this case, a global pattern that returned the search pattern missing it's first letter would even work. -- Mel : Does guy's brain unscrambler exist? :'( Blondin : yep Blondin : it is called beer
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