Re: Need Grep help to get first digit (or letter) in each row

[Tom Robinson]

^[^a-z0-9]*(.).*$

^ at beginning of line
[^a-z0-9] look for anything which isn’t a-z 0-9
* 0 or more times
(.) any single character (i.e. a-z 0-9), and ‘capture’ it for replacement 
pattern
★ any characters
$ end of line

Replace with

\1

Cheers


> On 2022-01-17, at 12:16, Howard  wrote:
> 
> Using the input data below and using Grep, I need either the first digit  or 
> letter extracted from each row (just one per row), so the output looks like 
> what is shown below. Though the output is displayed here in horizontal 
> format, I need the actual output in vertical format without any commas.
> Howard
> 
> Output
> 9, 3, D, 6, 8, 5, 3, 9, 5, 2, 7, 4, 3, D, 8, 7
> 
> Input data:
> *9/HD
> *3D/5
> *D1/H97
> *69/8HD
> *87/HD
> 57983/H
> *3
> *97D/8H
> *5D/H
> *2/D3H
> *7H/8
> *4/H
> *3/D5
> *D7/9
> *84/H
> 7DH/9
> 
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Need Grep help to get first digit (or letter) in each row

[Howard]

Using the *input data* below and using Grep, I need either the first digit 
 or letter extracted from each row (just one per row), so the *output* looks 
like what is shown below. Though the output is displayed here in horizontal 
format, I need the actual output in vertical format without any commas.
Howard

*Output*
9, 3, D, 6, 8, 5, 3, 9, 5, 2, 7, 4, 3, D, 8, 7

*Input data:*
*9/HD
*3D/5
*D1/H97
*69/8HD
*87/HD
57983/H
*3
*97D/8H
*5D/H
*2/D3H
*7H/8
*4/H
*3/D5
*D7/9
*84/H
7DH/9

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