[sf-perl] regex help

Dan Keller dan at keller.com
Tue Oct 11 12:01:48 PDT 2011


Assuming you have a shell and the sed command:

sed "s/^[^.][^.]*\.//" < inputfile > outputfile

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Dan Keller
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On 10/11/2011 11:57 AM, Richard Reina wrote:
> I have a file that has list of some sentences.  Some of them are 
> numbered so I am going in circles trying to figure out how to remove 
> the numbering.  The file is in the following format:
>
>     12. blah blah, blah blah blah. blah.
>  29. blah blah, blah.
>    19. blah blah blah.
>
> I am looking for a way to capture everything after the first dot so as 
> to remove the numbering.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
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