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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:01:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To: "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: matching a string
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Something like...

sed -e 's/^; \[//' -e 's/].*//' logfile

should work... I'm sure there are lots of other ways to do it as well.

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
>
> 	If anybody can help me out in this I'd appreciate it.
>
> Thank you,
> Christopher J. Umina
>
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