[wplug] Regex help?

[Michael Skowvron]

This may also do what you need

perl -nle '($numbers, $text) = $_ =~ /^([\d\.]+) (.*)$/; print $numbers,",
",$text'  < infile  > outfile



On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Chris Clonch <cclonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had good luck with http://www.regexr.com/ for testing regex's.
>
> /([0-9]*)[0-9]\./ will match any series of numbers ending in a period.
>
> -Chris
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Doug Green <diego96 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I've got some work data that I'm trying to clean up. It's a single column
> > of Excel data, each row contains a chapter/section/subsection/paragraph
> > number followed by a string of text. I'd like to separate the heading
> > numbers into a different column than the body of the text (creating a two
> > column data set).
> >
> > My plan was to do a CSV export, then add a comma after the number. By
> > re-importing the CSV this <should> put the section number in a different
> > column than the text. Example:
> >
> > 7.1.3.2. Section describing general attributes of an item.
> >
> > Converted to:
> >
> > 7.1.3.2., Section describing...
> >
> > Emacs has a convenient replace-regex function that simply asks first what
> > regex you want to search for and next what you want to replace it with.
> > I've tried every combo of "[0-9]\." and "[:digit:]\." but I'm not
> matching
> > ANY results. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a little help
> > on writing a generalized regex that will match "any number followed by a
> > period, optionally followed by up to 3 more numbers each followed by
> > periods"? Clear as mud, right?
> >
> > Thanks!
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