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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 04:04:59
Message-Id: 20190123180526.j6kpxlylnuzm4cko@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit by Adam Carter
1 Hello,
2
3 On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Adam Carter wrote:
4 >> $ printf '0.1.2.3 01.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.000.3\n' | \
5 >> sed 's/0*\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1/g'
6 >> 0.1.2.3 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.0.3
7 >
8 >So [[:digit:]] is another way of writing [0-9] and the + just means another
9 >instance of the proceeding expression, right, so your and Francois
10 >solutions are functionally the same, and all the following are the same
11 >too, right?
12
13 Not quite.
14
15 [[:digit:]]+ == [0-9][0-9]*
16
17 Not too, that [:digit:] respects locale. Don't know where locale
18 applies though. Probably Devanagari or such. I just made myself to use
19 classes rather than char-ranges. See man 7 regex for more classes.
20
21 HTH,
22 -dnh
23
24 --
25 "UNIX was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because
26 that would also stop them from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn