regex search and replace

regex search and replace

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
following.

I have few lines in the format 
  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
  ...
  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham

I want to end up with 
{ "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }

so my step by step approach is to remove the 
"  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "

then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.

then to replace end of line with (", ")

and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task.

so, playing around with	incremental regex search and hoping some body
will help me to learn something mean while.

thanks

Re: regex search and replace

[Gary Wessle]

Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
> following.
> 
> I have few lines in the format 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
>   ...
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham
> 
> I want to end up with 
> { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }
> 
> so my step by step approach is to remove the 
> "  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "
> 
> then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.
> 
> then to replace end of line with (", ")
> 
> and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task.
> 
> so, playing around with	incremental regex search and hoping some body
> will help me to learn something mean while.
> 
> thanks


I was able to reach 
xxx/yyy
.../...
ass/bbb

but when I replace end-of-line with (", ") it still leaves an
end-of-line after (", ").
that is it does not convert the lines to one lone line in the form
xxx/yyy, ...,"aaa/bbb"

the command I used was
replace-regex<ret>$<ret>", "<ret>

thanks

Re: regex search and replace

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 22.10.2006 um 23:45 schrieb Gary Wessle:

> but when I replace end-of-line with (", ") it still leaves an
> end-of-line after (", ").

EOL is no regular character. You can address it either by this, or by  
C-j.

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Re: regex search and replace

[rgb]

> but when I replace end-of-line with (", ") it still leaves an
> end-of-line after (", ").
> that is it does not convert the lines to one lone line in the form
> xxx/yyy, ...,"aaa/bbb"
>
> the command I used was
> replace-regex<ret>$<ret>", "<ret>

Use this insted:

replace-regex<ret>C-q C-j<ret>", "<ret>

Re: regex search and replace

[Alexis Roda]

En/na Gary Wessle ha escrit:
> Hi
> 
> I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
> following.
> 
> I have few lines in the format 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
>   ...
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham
> 
> I want to end up with 
> { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }
> 
> so my step by step approach is to remove the 
> "  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "
> 
> then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.

M-x replace-regexp RET ^.*\(\w\{3\}\)\(\w\{3\}\)$ RET "\1/\2" RET

You can find more info on REs here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Regexps.html#Regexps

> then to replace end of line with (", ")

M-x replace RET C-q C-j RET ,<SPC> RET




HTH

Re: regex search and replace

[aartist]

May be you can use Macro. It could be faster to build , compared to
searching or building regexp.
Gary Wessle wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
> following.
>
> I have few lines in the format
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
>   ...
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham
>
> I want to end up with
> { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }
>
> so my step by step approach is to remove the
> "  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "
>
> then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.
>
> then to replace end of line with (", ")
>
> and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task.
>
> so, playing around with	incremental regex search and hoping some body
> will help me to learn something mean while.
> 
> thanks