| Fun with regexes! |
[Mar. 24th, 2006|05:07 pm]
Darth Paradox
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| [ | Tags | | | programming | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  amused | ] |
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Specifically, fun with regexes processing other regexes. We've got a bunch of regexes for processing logs, and I needed to change their identical beginning strings to match the log format more precisely. So I figured sed was the right tool for the job.
And now, after assembling the sed command string... well, I still figure sed's the right tool for the job, but that doesn't mean I'm not amused.
s/\^\[\^\[\]\*\\\[/\^\\w\+\\s\+\\w\+\\s\+\\d\+\\s\+\\d\+:\\d\+:\\d\+\\s\+\[\^\[\]\*\\\[/
Ow, my head. But at least it works.
5:10 PM on Friday. So close.... |
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