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Re: Regular Expression Search and parse?



 Mark Woodward wrote: 
> ...does anyone know of a utility that 
> uses parameterized regular expressions as a search mechanism and outputs 
> only the parameters that were found? 

Awk, Perl, and probably sed. 


> So, if I have file with a lot of lines that look like this: 
> 
> Title: The Long and Winding Road [ISBN:123456] 
> Descr: A boring book about boring roads 
> Author: A dull cab driver 
> .... 
> 
> I could execute: 
> 
> myregex "Title:*\[ISBN:$1\]" file.txt 
> 123456 
> .... 
> 
> and get an output of all the ISBN numbers 


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