CODEWITHSUNDEEP
regextcl
Karthik Raj Palanichamy
Karthik Raj Palanichamy

Reputation: 519

How to replace specific characters using regsub?

I am using tcl 8.5.

I want to cut every line not ending with , or " in my input.

input 

karthik*
software engineer,

I tried ,

regsub -all {[^",]\n} $content {} content

expected output

karthik*software engineer,

output

karthiksoftware engineer,

The character * is missing .I understand [^,"] in regsub matches * and it is cut. But how can i cut only \n and not *?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 179

Answers (1)

glenn jackman
glenn jackman

Reputation: 247210

It's because you're throwing out the char before the newline along with the newline.

regsub -all {([^",])\n} $content {\1} content 
# ...........^.....^..............^^

Upvotes: 4

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