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What is the string you want to find, what is the sentence you want to find in, and what shell are you using to do it?
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Sorry <br />
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Find var1 in var2
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Sorry other way around <br />
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Find var2 in var1
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Thx ozo, &nbsp;is this using regular expression?
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It uses pathname expansion. &nbsp;<br />
Regular expressions did not seem to be needed to accomplish what you seemed to be asking for in this case.<br />
Is there another example that needs regular expressions?
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I think i can use this as well <br />
Thanks ozo
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Hi,<br />
Would like to find a string in a sentence using regex<br />
Basically I have two variables similar to below and valuate true or false<br />
VAR1=”NY,CO,NJ,FL”<br />
VAR2=”NY”<br />
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Thanks in advance
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Hi,
Would like to find a string in a sentence using regex
Basically I have two variables similar to below and valuate true or false
VAR1=”NY,CO,NJ,FL”
VAR2=”NY”

Thanks in advance

find a string in a sentence using regex

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.

Regular Expressions

The term 'shell' refers to a general class of text-based command interpreters most often associated with the UNIX and Linux operating systems. Popular shells include Bourne, Debian Almquist (dash), Korn (ksh), Bourne Again (bash) and the C shell family (csh). Some view the DOS 'cmd' prompt as a minimal shell of sorts. It is also possible to install Cygwin on Windows and emulate a full Unix environment with complete shell capabilities. Terminal emulators, such as xterm, GNOME Terminal and OS X Terminal, can be used to access shell.