From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] "Intervalic
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:51:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7af898f1cca6bb4312c1af962bde6cba@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43fcae95.pR9y1wmnRB5q51Z/%yard-ape@telus.net>
> Am I misunderstanding the REP operators? If not, how do you folks
> like to handle such problems as one might use intervalic expressions on?
> Do you just use an explicit regular expression? If so, I'm curious
> about the reasoning behind the design decision to leave intervalic
> expressions out.
They're a recent addition to the regular expression world and
no one has cared enough to add them.
If you're using awk and want the first 24 characters, I'd use substr.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-22 18:33 yard-ape
2006-02-22 18:51 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-02-22 19:20 ` yard-ape
2006-02-23 2:24 ` geoff
2006-02-22 19:50 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-22 20:58 ` yard-ape
2006-02-22 21:47 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-22 23:36 ` yard-ape
2006-02-22 18:50 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-23 0:05 ` yard-ape
2006-02-22 23:42 ` andrey mirtchovski
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