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Any line that begins with a '%' is a history report the user told
the switch to print. Even those this file has line feeds the
software sees a stream. We are currently in the process of major
modifications to the software to make it handle regex better.
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:59, Joe Knapka wrote:
> Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:40:35PM -0600, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > > Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> > > > Try "[^ ]?XMI001". That should match the string "XMI001" optionally
> > > > preceded by any character that is not a space. If you want to match 0
> > > > or more non-spaces, use "[^ ]*XMI001".
> > >
> > > But the string " XMI001" *is* an instance of "XMI001" preceded by
> > > zero non-space characters (and those zero non-spaces are preceded
> > > by some spaces), so would match both of your expressions.
> >
> > Damn, you're absolutely right.
> >
> > What about "([^ ]|^)XMI001"? That should match against a non-space OR
> > the beginning of line (or string) followed by the XMI001. I know Chris
> > said the regex engine is not seeing the lines, but I'm curious if this
> > would work.
>
> Yes, it should, I think. I'd like to see an actual sample of the data
> Chris is trying to process.
>
> -- Joe
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