[olug] Character Removal

[stan at srcproductions.com]

Would love to use Perl but I'm still getting my teeth wet on Bash  
scripts. Anybody got a good web site or book to get started learning  
Perl? What I'm doing I think would be a better match for Perl than it  
is for Bash but it's helping me learn a lot of things in Bash I never  
knew before so I guess that's a plus.


Quoting Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org>:

> On Thursday 18 October 2007, George Neill wrote:
>> On 10/18/07, stan at srcproductions.com <stan at srcproductions.com> wrote:
>> > I'd like to remove all characters between a '(' and the second ')'. I
>> > tried command lines like:
>>
>> gneill at vmware ]$ echo "this (is what 123 ) a (simple) test" | perl -pe
>> 's/(?<=\()[[:alnum:][:space:]]+//g;'
>> this () a () test
>
> perl -pe 's,\([^)]+,(,g'
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