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Question regular expression...
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| Michael B. 2004-06-10, 3:55 pm |
| Hi,
I'm new to awk and regular expressions. What I need is a regular
expression that removes everything between [ and ], inclusive the
brackets.
For example: The string "Hi this is a [little] test" should be "Hi
this is a test" afterwards.
How do I do that?
Thanks for any help!
Michael
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| Ed Morton 2004-06-10, 8:57 pm |
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Michael B. wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm new to awk and regular expressions. What I need is a regular
> expression that removes everything between [ and ], inclusive the
> brackets.
>
> For example: The string "Hi this is a [little] test" should be "Hi
> this is a test" afterwards.
>
> How do I do that?
That wouldn't just remove the part within the [...], it also removes a
white spacce. This removes the part within []:
awk '{sub("\\[.*\\]","");print}'
There's various ways to remove the white space.
Ed.
> Thanks for any help!
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> Michael
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