[NTLUG:Discuss] removing text: fighting tr and regex

[Fred James]

Victor Brilon wrote:

>On Jul 6, 2006, at 3:03 AM, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
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>>echo "jdoe at example.com (John Doe)" | sed --expression s/\(.*?\)//g
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>You're almost there:
>echo "jdoe at example.com (John Doe)" | sed -e s/\(.*\)//g
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>To badly paraphrase "The Princess Bride": You keep using the ?  
>qualifier, I don't think it does what you think it does :)
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>If you truly want to use the ? qualifier to do what it's supposed to  
>do (i.e., match the minimal number of chars), just use perl like this:
>echo "jdoe at example.com (John Doe)" | perl -n -e 's/\(.*?\)//g;print'
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>Victor
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Victor Brilon
It worked just fine in shell (for me anyway) by simply removing the '?'
echo "jdoe at example.com (John Doe)" | sed --expression s/\(.*\)//g
Regards
Fred James