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tedius · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:46 am Post subject: regular expressions

I have a structure with a member secno and I want to find all the files where a secno comparison is made. So I though that a egrep would do the job nicely, and I came up with this.

egrep ".*secno == .*secno.*" *.cc

Now I had run this command multiple times, changing the comparison function each time, i.e. ==, >, <, <=, >= and !=

Does anyone know if there is way I could have done all this with one regular expression rather than the 6 that I came up with.

Thanks

MartyBartfast · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: RE: regular expressions

I think this will do what you want:

egrep ".*secno [=<>\!]=? .*secno.*" *.cc

tedius · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: RE: regular expressions

That Marty,

No that was my first attempt too, but that will also give you assignment.

I've now found a way though

egrep "secno (==|(<|>|\!)=?) .*secno" *.cc