Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> to match one or more, use + instead of *. >> >> * matches 0 or more, + matches 1 or more. > > Thanks! > >>> I have to buy a book on RegEx's and Sed :) >> http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/gawk.pdf >> >> (G)awk is pretty sh!t hot where I work; however we've extended it a >> bit. :) > > So gawk does all that sed does and more? I suppose I can start with > that in this case, I always wanted a book on regexe's so I think I > am going to order O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition. > They also have a sed & awk, Second Edition book, but its 10+ years old, > does that matter, has sed/awk changed any since then? Why not just start with perl which does more than sed/awk while using similar syntax (if you want)? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com