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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:40:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
To: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Question Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: matching a string
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Perfect!

Thank you all,
Christopher J. Umina

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Viktor Lazlo wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > 	I'm writing some code to pull screen names out of a log, but I
> > can't seem to figure out the regular expressions to get it done.  If you
> > want to see the log file it's at:
> > http://216.164.225.145:81/~uminac/mp3/logs/master
> > 	What I've been looking to make the script do is just list the
> > screen names without the brackets, that's all.  For instance:
> > kelzy16
> > cc skillet
> > ccgirl436
> > ccgirl436
> > meikman99
> > bctictac8
>
> Exactly which combination of metacharacters, regular expressions and
> commands depends on what you are attempting to accomplish in your script
> apart from isolating the usernames and by what means, but as a general
> example:
>
> cat master | sed -n 's/.*\[\(.*\)\].*/\1/p'
>
> should get you near or in the ballpark.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Viktor
>
>


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