Re: script help with grep or regex ?

>>>>> "lists" == lists  <[email protected]> writes:

lists> I have a shell script that gets a web page, after around half
lists> dozen sed/awk one liners I end up with like[1]:

lists> I would like to extract all the 7 digit numeric values,
lists> currently starting with '313....', to use them further in the
lists> script

Why not just something like:
    sed  's/[^0-9]*\(313[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)[^0-9]*/\n\1\n/g'  |
    sed -n '/^313[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$/p'

This first splits out 7-digit numbers starting 313 into a line on
their own, then prints just those lines.

Peter C
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