[oclug] My first dum question of the day

[Ahmed Masud]

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Well if you are looking for the _WORD_ BOB 

	Mr. BOB was a good man
	BOBBING was his hobby

IF the only line you were interested in was the first and wanted to
ignore the second one then:

	grep -e '^BOB$' -e '^BOB[ \t]' -e '[ \t][ \t]*BOB[ \t]' -e '[
\t]BOB$'

Also, you may want to replace [ \t] with a more language specific
(english in this case)
thing:

e.g. the above would not match

	Once upon a time, there lived a guy named BOB. He was a happy guy.

but:

	grep -e '^BOB$' -e '^BOB[ \.,!;\?\t]' -e '[ \t][ \t]*BOB[
\.,!;\?\t]' -e '[ \t]BOB$'

would match BOB in above, and in most punctuated sentences. But you
get the idea.

Ahmed.


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> Subject: [oclug] My first dum question of the day
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How would I do a search like this...
> 
> Search a line and find the word BOB, but only if it is  in caps?
> 
> The search must be done using posix based regular expressions.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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