From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com>
Cc: Zsh users list <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:44:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20986.1071063874@gmcs3.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031210131756.GA29126@fruitcom.com>
Eric Smith wrote:
>
> >
> > myfax () {
> > command myfax "${1//[-()]}${2//[-()]}" ${argv[3,-1]}
> > }
>
> There can be n number of args with the offending punctutation characters.
> And n should be determined from the first arg that commences in a non
> [-()0-9] character.
myfax() {
local last=${argv[(i)[^-()0-9]*]}
command myfax "${(j..)argv[1,last-1]//[-()]}" "$argv[last,-1]"
}
That uses the (i) subscript flag to find the first arg commencing with
a different character. I'd be inclined to check all characters:
(^[-()0-9]#)
You could use a loop to do the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-10 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-01 11:17 avoid file not found error with { .. } expansion Eric Smith
2003-12-01 12:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-12-10 12:46 ` regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers Eric Smith
2003-12-10 13:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-12-10 13:17 ` Eric Smith
2003-12-10 13:44 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2003-12-01 12:07 ` avoid file not found error with { .. } expansion Thomas Köhler
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