On 14 September 2016 at 16:34, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks to all for the question and discussion. I enjoy diversions like > this. I nearly always pick up some new technique and interesting points of > view. Yes, interesting to see these discussions ever so often. I wasn't aware of the BASH_REMATCH trick Christopher posted in another recent thread, two other nice Bash tricks I stumbled across recently, extglob applies to subsitutions in parameter expansion and the base of a number representation can be explicitly specified (preventing problems when dealing with numbers potentially starting with 0 being interpreted as octal), <http://stackoverflow.com/a/11130324>. Not great to get carried away with doing regexs and string manipulation in bash, but sometimes it's being able to do something minor along those lines that's the alternative to recasting things into a different language. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
