From: Wu JIANG <albert.w.jiang@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 regexp
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:44:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19bd5af70906031344m3e8c6f4dndbcaa8a52d6072c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <138575260906031311o10ac5d59qa8366b89e56b1ff@mail.gmail.com>
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Sorry, I misunderstood your question in the first place. I think one example
can be good to show how ``?'' is useful somehow in grep.
Suppose I have a file, I want to find out a keyword ``produce'', but I know
that the word ``produced'' might also be the word that I am interested (stem
process in information retrieval or nlp). So I use the pattern "produced?"
to find all the words useful to me.
I hope this can be helpful at least a little bit. :-)
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> you are right, but the original post read
>
> > grep 'a+bb?'
>
> so you get at least one 'a' and one or two 'b'.
>
> 2009/6/3 Wu JIANG <albert.w.jiang@gmail.com>:
> > actually, a+ means at least one 'a', b? means zero or one 'b'.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:56 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I am experimenting with some regexp implementations (namely the one
> >> from "the practice of programming") and I am a little disoriented by
> >> the use of the '?' operator in plan 9's grep:
> >> say I have the following input
> >>
> >> aaaabbb
> >> ab
> >> aaaab
> >> bb
> >> b
> >> aaabb
> >> aaaa
> >>
> >> which I feed into grep with
> >>
> >> grep 'a+bb?'
> >>
> >> which should match at least one 'a' followed by one or two 'b'. So,
> >> grep's output is
> >>
> >> aaaabbb
> >> ab
> >> aaaab
> >> aaabb
> >>
> >> which really surprised me at first, since I wasn't expecting the first
> >> line. After some thought, I realized that the 'aaaab' and the 'aaaabb'
> >> patterns, contained in the first line of input, match the regexp, so
> >> grep prints the line.
> >> But then, how exactly the '?' operator is useful for grep? I was
> >> thinking that it was good to filter lines that contain more characters
> >> that desired, but it is not.
> >> Saludos
> >> --
> >> Hugo
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Hugo
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-03 14:56 hugo rivera
2009-06-03 16:21 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2009-06-03 17:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-03 17:46 ` Rob Pike
2009-06-03 18:05 ` hugo rivera
2009-06-03 16:50 ` yy
2009-06-03 16:51 ` Russ Cox
2009-06-03 17:19 ` Enrique Soriano
2009-06-03 20:01 ` Wu JIANG
2009-06-03 20:05 ` Wu JIANG
2009-06-03 20:11 ` hugo rivera
2009-06-03 20:44 ` Wu JIANG [this message]
2009-06-03 20:49 ` hugo rivera
2009-06-03 23:32 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-06-03 23:41 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-06-03 23:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-04 1:22 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-06-04 11:43 ` Martin Neubauer
2009-06-04 19:23 ` J. R. Mauro
2009-06-04 19:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-04 21:54 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-06-05 18:12 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-13 18:29 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-06-04 21:35 ` Dan Cross
2009-06-04 22:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-06-05 0:05 ` Dan Cross
2009-06-06 17:55 ` Ori Bernstein
2009-06-07 17:11 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-07 21:31 ` Russ Cox
2009-06-05 0:07 ` Dan Cross
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