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Perl pattern matching
Name: Carlos Picardal Date: May 3, 2004 at 12:43:50 Pacific OS: AIX 5.0 CPU/Ram: ??
Comment:
I have a line of code that partialy works. It does not work the way i want it! I do not want it to pick up any duplicate entries.
Say I have two entries called car and icar, I just want to pick up car.
search pattern:
if (m/Database name.^$pattern/i)
entries:
Database name = car blah blah blah blah blah blah
Database name = icar blah blah blah blah blah blah
since this is the UNIX forum: grep "^patt" file|sort |uniq -u
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Response Number 2
Name: FishMonger Date: May 3, 2004 at 21:15:52 Pacific
Reply:
if (Database name = $pattern\b/i)
Dlonra, are you infering that Perl is not a part of UNIX? It's been on every UNIX system that I've used.
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Response Number 3
Name: FishMonger Date: May 3, 2004 at 21:18:17 Pacific
Reply:
Oops, I left out the leading / on the regex.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dlonra Date: May 4, 2004 at 05:48:05 Pacific
Reply:
Fishmonger,
PERL was not on the pre-1987 UNIX systems I used. Neither was python nor php - C++ was "C with classes" These each have their own forums.
If I was critiquing Dlonra's solution, I would note that he was attempting to sort a file while Kialos!!23 simply wanted to distinguish between similar patterns.
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