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From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Substituting all but a trailing digit/number
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:36:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713133654.GA7301@sc.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns996C91E6E2BD1zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5>

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:22:56PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote in news:200707131248.l6DCmHAI018710
> @news01.csr.com:
> 
> > zzapper wrote:
> >> 
> >> I want to generalise top3 into top4,top5..etc
> >> 
> >> But how could I get filter just the trailing number (in VIM I would use 
> >> memory)
> > 
> > Use
> > 
> >   num=${(M)0%%<->}
> > 
> > The (M) tells the shell to substitute the matched part instead of
> > removing the matched part.
> Thanks Peter,
> And If I wanted to anchor the number to the end?
[...]

%% matches at the end, as much as possible.

You could also do

num=${0##*[!0-9]}

(remoes everything up to the rightmost non-digit).

That even happesns to  be POSIX.

Also, why are you using ls?

Why not simply

gvim -p *(.om[1,$num])

-- 
Stéphane


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Xns996C883213985zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5>
     [not found] ` <200707131248.l6DCmHAI018710@news01.csr.com>
2007-07-13 13:22   ` zzapper
2007-07-13 13:36     ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2007-07-13 13:41       ` zzapper

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