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Revision as of 04:49, 5 June 2018
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Special Characters (need to be escaped in regular expressions)
/ " $ # unescaped signifies end of line ^ # unescaped signifies the beginning of a line ! [ ] : * # zero or more + # one or more - does not seem to work for all seds. . # dot
Non-Special Characters (do not need to be escaped in regular expressions)
< > ( ) ! - { } + # this is interesting, I thought '+' is a meta-character, more experimentation necessary.
Grouping
Use \( and \) for grouping. Parentheses must be escaped to be interpreted as grouping separator.
Examples
Match everything except space:
[^ ]*
.*
seems to work too.
Words (digits, alpha, _):
sed -e 's/[0-9a-zA-Z_]*/THIS_WAS_A_WORD/g'
Blank spaces (spaces, tabs, newlines): \s does not seem to work.
Regular Expression Syntax
TO NORMALIZE across java Regular Expression Syntax, grep Regular Expression Syntax, sed Regular Expression Syntax.