[clug] Circumflex

[Scott Ferguson]

On 21/08/17 02:15, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux wrote:
> Thanks, Kim:
> 
>> Regular expressions are confusing.
> 
> I have been "tearing my hair out", trying to match the end of a line in
> a file. Say I want to select from a file, the line whose final character
> is `E'.
> But the following returns nil!
>     grep 'E$' Sample.txt
less Sample.txt
testE
teste
tested

grep [E]$ Sample.txt
testE

(you didn't specify a capture group)

grep [d]$ Sample.txt
tested


grep [deE]$ Sample.txt
testE
teste
tested


This is why I suggested learning in a text editor to begin with - so you
can see what works and why.


Kind regards

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