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Subject: Re: matching a string
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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:


Try this:

 perl -e 'while (<>) {if ($_=~/\[(.+)\]/) {print $1, "\n" }}' < file

Here's the perl script in a more readable form:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while (<>) {
	if ($_=~/\[(.+)\]/) {
		print $1, "\n";
	}
}

 			Fer



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