Thanks for the quick response. > Well, you can't do that by anything you try inside the regex, because > pcregrep either prints the whole line or the part that matched if you > set the -o option. If you can't use the -o option, you will always get > the whole line.
I was afraid that would be the case. > How about piping STDOUT to another instance of pcregrep (or some other > program) to chop off the text after the .... ? Or do that before > passing the data to pcregrep? I have decided that it is better to change the program to be smart to accept pcregrep command line options. Your response just re-enforced that changing the program is a better option. Thanks Raga > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Hazel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 8:33 AM > To: Swamisai, Ragavendar > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] How to mimic --only-matching inside of regex > > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Swamisai, Ragavendar wrote: > > > STRING > > > > #ABC_XYZ foo.c(999) @ 19990 ns: foobar [foo] DATA packet mismatch..... > Data on wire is > 0000000000000000000000000000063b0000000000000000000000000000063b00000000000 > 00000000000000000063b0000000000000000000000000000063b0000000000000000000000 > 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > 0 > > > > I want to print out just the line > > > > #ABC_XYZ foo.c(999) @ 19990 ns: foobar [foo] DATA packet mismatch..... > > > > I am able to do this if I do the below > > > > % pcregrep -o -e "#\s+ABC_XYZ.*\.\.\.\." file.txt > > #ABC_XYZ foo.c(999) @ 19990 ns: foobar [foo] DATA packet mismatch..... > > > > But need a way to do the above without using '-o' option > > Well, you can't do that by anything you try inside the regex, because > pcregrep either prints the whole line or the part that matched if you > set the -o option. If you can't use the -o option, you will always get > the whole line. > > How about piping STDOUT to another instance of pcregrep (or some other > program) to chop off the text after the .... ? Or do that before > passing the data to pcregrep? > > Philip > > -- > Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
