Contributed by dpenny
on Aug 24, 2002 at 01:29 UTC
Q&A
> regular expressions
Description: I have lines of a file in an array, each begins with a time stamp, HHMMSS, and are in increasing sequential order. How can I construct a grep & regex to select all lines belonging to the 1st 5 minute interval, then the 2nd, 3rd, etc. til end-of-data in array.
Thanks! Answer: Can I regex & grep to select contiguous lines?
contributed by sauoq As your lines are in chronological order anyway, it doesn't make sense to use grep. A grep will search through the whole array but you want a set of contiguous entries and as soon as you find one outside of the right interval you know you are done searching.
You would be better off simply iterating through the lines. If seconds don't matter at all, you can just look at the last digit of your minutes and once that digit mod 5 is the same as your starting digit, you are done.
If seconds do matter, you'll have to do a little more work but the principle of iterating though the lines instead of grepping still holds. |
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