[olug] Character Removal

[Phil Brutsche]

Is the list working properly? All I see in these messages is a bunch of
line noise...





:)

Luke -Jr wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007, George Neill wrote:
>> On 10/18/07, stan at srcproductions.com <stan at srcproductions.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to remove all characters between a '(' and the second ')'. I
>>> tried command lines like:
>> gneill at vmware ]$ echo "this (is what 123 ) a (simple) test" | perl -pe
>> 's/(?<=\()[[:alnum:][:space:]]+//g;'
>> this () a () test
> 
> perl -pe 's,\([^)]+,(,g'

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us