Re: [Regexp] a regexp question

[Hartwig, Thomas]

Forget my second email, this was a silly one. Of course you could do 
something like grep -v "puppy.*kitty" always without sed, but that is 
not a fine regex of course.

Thomas

Hartwig, Thomas wrote:
> If you have a sort of unix this one could help you:
>
> sed 's/puppy.*kitty/§§§/' | grep -v "§§§"
>
> §§§ is just a sample.
>
> Thomas
>
> Levent Yilmaz wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > It sounded like a very simple problem but I couldn't come up with a 
> > solution. I was trying to do this with Basic Regexp in grep:
> >
> > Find all lines which contain the word 'kitty'. But only those lines 
> > that do not have 'puppy' somewhere before 'kitty'. For instance:
> >
> > my kitty is very cute
> > but puppy is cuter than kitty
> >
> > What regular expression stands for the first line but not the second? 
> > Note that the other way is very easy, that is the lines with 'puppy' 
> > followed by 'kitty': puppy.*kitty
> >
> > thank you so very much!
> > -Levent.
> >
> >
> > PS: What is all this spam on the list by the way?
> >
> >
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