Re: [OT] grep help

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2004

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 59766
interpreted = N
texte = devaulw@onebox.com wrote:> Here's how to isolate the price:> > [grep search=.*(�[0-9,\.]*).*&replace=\1][longstring][/grep]> > I think you need to escape the . with a slash, i.e. \.It is usually not necessary to escape the period when it is part of a character class (though you should experiment with the WebDNA regex library to be sure). Typically, everything inside of the square brackets except the hyphen is treated as a single character (i.e. no special meaning); in fact, if the hyphen is one of the characters you need to make part of the class, you would typically list it first, even if you used it later in the expression to notate a range.John-- John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4501 Forbes BoulevardSuite HLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5748-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [OT] grep help ( John Peacock 2004)
Re: [OT] grep help ( devaulw@onebox.com 2004)
[OT] grep help ( Mark Derrick 2004)

devaulw@onebox.com wrote:> Here's how to isolate the price:> > [grep search=.*(�[0-9,\.]*).*&replace=\1][longstring][/grep]> > I think you need to escape the . with a slash, i.e. \.It is usually not necessary to escape the period when it is part of a character class (though you should experiment with the WebDNA regex library to be sure). Typically, everything inside of the square brackets except the hyphen is treated as a single character (i.e. no special meaning); in fact, if the hyphen is one of the characters you need to make part of the class, you would typically list it first, even if you used it later in the expression to notate a range.John-- John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4501 Forbes BoulevardSuite HLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5748-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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