[CentOS] regex question

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I am trying to extract a pattern from a downloaded html file. I only want
> the first match
> printed, problem is I don't know how to force sed to exit after printing
> the first match of
> a capture group. Anyone know the trick to manipulating {p;q;} to print a
> capture group?
>
awk '{if ( $0 ~ /p;q;/ ) { print $0; exit;}}' filename

would work....

       mark "if Larry Wall could push perl in comp.lang.awk,
               I can answer a sed question this way...."