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notorious Novice Aug 8, 2011, 4:27 PM Post #1 of 5 (1294 views) perl regular expression cannot be matched? Can't Post Hi, I am trying to run an expression to match a particular line of text in a file, then capture the entire rest of the file using a perl one-liner: For example, in the following file, I want to match starting at Header2 (ie the first header after ".X-Intermail-Unknown-MIME-Type=unparsedmessage" to the end of the file. <lsmothers@example.com> SMTP 0<001501c4db9b$db8b2680$2d01a8c0@ryand9v889t9uc> .X-Intermail-Unknown-MIME-Type=unparsedmessage Header2: <headertwo@example.com Received: from server.cluster1.example.com ([10.20.201.160]) line 12 EVERYTHING I have done around this does not catch it. An example of what I have tried is below. From what I read, I think the below method should work: $ cat sample.txt | perl -wnl -e '/\.X\-Intermail\-Unknown\-MIME\-Type\=unparsedmessag(e.*)/s and print $1;' e The above returns only the e character, and I did that on purpose to make sure the string is matched. I am using the s modifier after the expression, which would categorize "newline" as "any". Can anyone give me any suggestions? Thanks, Robert

FishMonger Veteran Aug 8, 2011, 5:32 PM Post #2 of 5 (1291 views) Re: [notorious] perl regular expression cannot be matched? [In reply to] Can't Post Since you're reading the data line-by-line, using the s option on the regex won't do anything useful. You would need to read in the data in chunks, not line-by-line. Please don't cat the file and pipe it, pass the file as an arg. Useless Use of cat http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html (This post was edited by FishMonger on Aug 8, 2011, 5:33 PM)

notorious Novice Aug 9, 2011, 2:37 PM Post #3 of 5 (1275 views) Re: [FishMonger] perl regular expression cannot be matched? [In reply to] Can't Post ooops - I did the same thing a few months ago....it was cat...ill have to write a short script and open the file properly. Thanks

notorious Novice Aug 9, 2011, 2:41 PM Post #4 of 5 (1274 views) Re: [notorious] perl regular expression cannot be matched? [In reply to] Can't Post Nice - I got the award LOL!

BillKSmith Veteran Aug 10, 2011, 4:50 AM Post #5 of 5 (1256 views) Re: [notorious] perl regular expression cannot be matched? [In reply to] Can't Post It is not necessary to open the file explicitly. You are using the perl runtime option -n. Refer to perldoc perlrun to see that this option reads the file using the input operator with a null file handle "<>". In perldoc perlop, we find that the input operator with a null file handle is a special case. Like sed and awk, it can open the files specified as arguments. Good Luck, Bill

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