Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:32:36 10/12/05
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On October 12, 2005 at 16:31:00, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>On October 12, 2005 at 16:21:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>If you don't care about regular expressions, you could use "fgrep" which would
>>not treat the "[" in any special way at all.
>>
>>awk makes it trivial to take something like
>>
>>[White "Hyatt, Robert"]
>>
>>and turn it into Hyatt, Robert as in
>>
>>awk -F\" '{print $2}' which will get rid of the [White " and then the trailing
>>"]
>>parts...
>
>Sure. As I had mentioned, this all can be done. How many of the readers of this
>forum would be able to do it? How long would an experienced user need to get
>everything right (some names will probably have "/" inside, or "\" - an escaping
>machanism defined in the PGN-Standard).? To me this looks not like a trivial
>project.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter
I was just speaking as a long-time unix user. :)
I dream in awk/sed/grep/csh-scripts/etc...
:)
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