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How do I convert [*] into a regular expression?


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This means that I want to find everything that matches between (and including) the brackets. What do I substitute the "*" for in order to create a regular expression?










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  • Since you don't specify what regular expression version (nor how "ctrl+f" fits into the matter) we'll go ahead and assume perl: perl -ne 'if(/([[^]]*])/){print "$1n"}' filename

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  • Since you don't specify what regular expression version (nor how "ctrl+f" fits into the matter) we'll go ahead and assume perl: perl -ne 'if(/([[^]]*])/){print "$1n"}' filename

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Essentially I need to Ctrl+f (search for) the following string...



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This means that I want to find everything that matches between (and including) the brackets. What do I substitute the "*" for in order to create a regular expression?










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This means that I want to find everything that matches between (and including) the brackets. What do I substitute the "*" for in order to create a regular expression?







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  • Since you don't specify what regular expression version (nor how "ctrl+f" fits into the matter) we'll go ahead and assume perl: perl -ne 'if(/([[^]]*])/){print "$1n"}' filename

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  • Since you don't specify what regular expression version (nor how "ctrl+f" fits into the matter) we'll go ahead and assume perl: perl -ne 'if(/([[^]]*])/){print "$1n"}' filename

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Since you don't specify what regular expression version (nor how "ctrl+f" fits into the matter) we'll go ahead and assume perl: perl -ne 'if(/([[^]]*])/){print "$1n"}' filename

– Theophrastus
2 hours ago







Since you don't specify what regular expression version (nor how "ctrl+f" fits into the matter) we'll go ahead and assume perl: perl -ne 'if(/([[^]]*])/){print "$1n"}' filename

– Theophrastus
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