I am using an older version of cygwin on a Windows 7 PC. I have a file of data that is formatted in character separated value format. For example, a couple of lines might be:
"Doe, John";"Student";"Senior" "Admin";"Staff"; Now, I want to perform a grep that returns lines that do not have a comma in the "first column" of data. I tried the obvious grep '^"[^,"]";' file.csv but did not get the results desired. I got nothing returned - but I know there are lines like the admin line in the data. I know there are all sorts of extended regular expression atoms available; is this a case where I need egrep and something unique to express the requirements? -- Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
