Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:34:52 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: matching all non [:lower:] Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0005101433590.487-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <NEBBJANJCNNAKCPFKHHFKEOFCBAA.dl@tyfon.net>
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On Wed, 10 May 2000, Dan Larsson wrote: > How do I match all non lower characters > from a string? Evidently the caret (^) sign > doesn't work: > echo "#$%&a/()b=?" | sed -e '/[^[:lower:]]*/s///' > > (returns: a/()b=?) > (what I want it to return is: ab) tr -c -d \[:lower:\] -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk On modesty: whoever said "it's hard being perfect" obviously wasn't me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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