Perhaps echo "1.2 beta" | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1\2/' is what you're after? (dont flame if I'm wrong though! ;) mike

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 23:44:49 +0100 From: Arpi <arpi@thot.banki.hu> To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] ad_faad.c compile error Message-ID: <200302072244.h17Mintg002591@mail.mplayerhq.hu> In-Reply-To: <200302072137.h17LbgQ01922@moe.2bsd.com> Precedence: list Reply-To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu> Message: 10

Hi,

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echo 1.1 | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]+\)\.\([0-9]+\).*/\1\2/' 1.1

argh

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Perhaps using 'tr -d .' instead of sed would work better?

no since it may be '1.2 beta'

maybe |tr -d .|cut -d ' ' -f 1 ?

btw why is the above sed expr. wrong? i don't know sed enough but at first look it seems to be correct.

A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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