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| From | Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> |
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| Subject | Re: Regular expressions |
| Date | Wed, 04 Nov 2015 09:57:02 +0100 |
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Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 11/03/2015 08:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), but
>>>> it's default mode is certainly not regular expressions ...
>>>
>>> Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is regular
>>> expressions.
>>
>> I don't even know what grep stands for.
>>
>> But I think what Michael may mean is that if you "grep foo", no regex
>> magic takes place since "foo" contains no metacharacters.
>
> More likely I just don't know what I'm talking about. I must have been
> thinking about something else (shell globbing perhaps).
>
> Certainly most of the times I've seen grep used, it's to look for a word
> with no special metacharacters, as you say. Still a valid RE of course.
> But I have learned to night I don't need to resort to grep -e to use
> regular expressions. At least with GNU grep, that's the default.
Well, I didn't know that grep uses regular expressions by default.
I tried Tim's example
$ seq 5 | grep '1*'
1
2
3
4
5
$
which surprised me because I remembered that there usually weren't any
matching lines when I invoked grep instead of egrep by mistake. So I tried
another one
$ seq 5 | grep '[1-3]+'
$
and then headed for the man page. Apparently there is a subset called "basic
regular expressions":
"""
Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions
In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (,
and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed
versions \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).
"""
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Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-02 20:09 -0500
Re: Regular expressions MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-03 01:19 +0000
Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-02 22:17 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-02 20:42 -0600
Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-02 22:17 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 22:58 -0500
Re: Regular expressions rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-02 20:23 -0800
Re: Regular expressions Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 21:38 -0700
Re: Regular expressions rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-03 16:33 -0800
Re: Regular expressions Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 19:04 -0700
Re: Regular expressions Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2015-11-04 02:55 +0000
Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-04 14:23 +1100
Re: Regular expressions Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 20:47 -0700
Re: Regular expressions Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-04 13:27 +0000
Re: Regular expressions Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-11-04 05:05 +0000
Re: Regular expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-04 09:57 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-05 13:28 +1100
Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-04 20:48 -0600
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Re: Regular expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-05 09:33 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-05 23:05 +1100
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Re: Regular expressions Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-04 08:00 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 08:13 -0700
Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-04 18:00 -0500
Re: Regular expressions rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-04 16:24 -0800
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Re: Regular expressions rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-04 21:59 -0800
Re: Regular expressions Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-05 09:18 +0100
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Re: Regular expressions Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-06 21:36 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-06 15:42 -0500
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Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-04 09:42 -0600
Re: Regular expressions Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-11-05 20:55 +1300
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Re: What does “grep” stand for? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-11-05 10:19 -0500
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Re: What does “grep” stand for? (was: Regular expressions) Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-04 13:05 -0600
Re: Regular expressions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-04 18:08 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-04 18:29 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-03 21:12 -0600
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Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-04 14:48 +1100
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Re: Regular expressions rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-04 21:42 -0800
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Re: Regular expressions Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-11-05 10:14 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-04 18:02 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-05 11:54 +1100
Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-05 10:07 -0500
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Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-03 18:15 +1100
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Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-03 05:53 -0600
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Re: Regular expressions Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2015-11-03 11:10 -0500
Re: Regular expressions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 03:20 +1100
Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-04 14:35 +1100
Re: Regular expressions Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-11-04 12:41 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-03 14:56 +0000
Re: Regular expressions Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 20:51 -0700
Re: Regular expressions rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-02 20:23 -0800
Re: Regular expressions Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 21:33 -0700
Re: Regular expressions Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2015-11-03 23:58 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-03 10:25 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-03 05:50 -0600
Re: Regular expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-03 15:00 +0100
Re: Regular expressions Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-11-03 17:12 +0200
Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-03 16:35 +0100
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-11-03 18:42 +0200
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-03 10:56 -0600
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-04 14:39 +1100
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 10:07 +0000
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-04 09:33 -0600
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-03 18:44 +0100
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 11:33 -0700
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 11:39 -0700
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-03 13:45 -0600
Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-03 22:15 +0000
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