[Cialug] PerlRE

[Jerry Heiselman]

On 9/2/07, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
> Todd Walton wrote:
> > But how do I yank and return just "We go to the " out of it?
>
> Depending on how exact you need your output, grep might be sufficient.
>
> grep "We go to the" file.txt
>
> Eric
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Try:

perl -nle "/(We go to the \w)/ && print $1"

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