Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:59:47
Message-Id:	`a24250ac-c20d-9da2-4105-3beee97d7117@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit by Michael Orlitzky

1	On 1/21/19 5:02 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2	> You need a parser, not a regular expression.
3
4	The first thing that came to mind is splitting the values and passing
5	them through printf.
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7	> (You can do it with a regex, but it's going to be one of those comical
8	> twelve-page-long things.)
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10	I don't know about 12 pages. But, yes, a regular expression that takes
11	all the possible cases into account, especially as the four octet IP,
12	will be … complicated. A regular expression to work on an individual
13	octet might be less complicated.
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15	You can play with REs fairly easily via sed.