Re: Strip substring using do shell script and regex
Re: Strip substring using do shell script and regex
- Subject: Re: Strip substring using do shell script and regex
- From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:11:41 -0500
On Dec 28, 2016, at 10:52 AM, debt wrote:
> I’m trying to strip a substring of 2 digits following an asterisk (e.g. *67 or *82, etc.) but I’m running into problems. Can someone see what I’m doing wrong here?
>
> set clean_text to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of original_name & " | perl -pe ’s/\*\d{2}//g;'"
>
> The regex works fine in Perl, so I’m not sure what’s wrong with the above.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
Not an answer to you question but Satimage OSAX has regular expression search and replace (along with a lot of other nice things).
Steve
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OS X 10.6.8, AppleScript 2.1.2
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