Regular Expression

Sorry, this may not be the best newsgroup, but it is the most Linux savvy
of any I know.

I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to match a line with more
than 2 '-' characters in it. Is this possible?

Dan

"Dan N" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:47faef10$0$13273$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Sorry, this may not be the best newsgroup, but it is the most Linux savvy
> of any I know.
>
> I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to match a line with more
> than 2 '-' characters in it. Is this possible?

(.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)

I don't recall offhand how to collapse that further for the 3 repetitions of
"-(.*)" but the above should work.

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:17:09 -0700, D. Stussy wrote:

> (.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)
>
> I don't recall offhand how to collapse that further for the 3 repetitions of
> "-(.*)" but the above should work.

Thanks

Dan

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:17:09 -0700, D. Stussy wrote:

> (.*)-(.*)-(.*)-(.*)
>
> I don't recall offhand how to collapse that further for the 3 repetitions of
> "-(.*)" but the above should work.

Thanks

Dan

Dan N <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Sorry, this may not be the best newsgroup, but it is the most Linux savvy
>of any I know.

>I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to match a line with more
>than 2 '-' characters in it. Is this possible?

/.*-.*-.*-/

This is hardly a networking question.



>Dan

>>>>> "Unruh" == Unruh <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>> I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to match a line
>> with more than 2 '-' characters in it. Is this possible?

Unruh> /.*-.*-.*-/

Unruh> This is hardly a networking question.

It looks like a homework question.



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Dan N wrote:
> Sorry, this may not be the best newsgroup, but it is the most Linux savvy
> of any I know.
>
> I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to match a line with more
> than 2 '-' characters in it. Is this possible?
>
> Dan

Instead of using constructions to match for multiple occurrences of a
character, you should try matching for that character in a line and use
the designated regexp function to return a result count.

But since this is very very basic regexp material, I suggest you read up
on regular expressions (google) before asking stuff on (the wrong)
newsgroups.

-R-