Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
- Subject: Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:45:33 +0200
At 8:31 PM +0100 20/08/03, John Delacour wrote:
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At 3:01 pm +0200 20/8/03, Emmanuel wrote:
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> >set s to "1234-56abc"
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>>do shell script "perl -e '
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>>$_= q~" & s & "~ ; s~[^\\d]~~g ; print '"
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>This makes an error on my machine (I am testing with a piece of text of 31,000 characters). Maybe the list server changed some characters.
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No. Almost certainly your 31,000 characters contained at least one ' and that would break it, for obvious reasons if you look at it. This direct approach can only be used if there are no ' in the string. A file has to be used otherwise, as I've meantioned a couple of times fairly recently.
You're correct and I was stewpid. Apologies and thanks for correcting.
Emmanuel
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