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Re: Substituting all but a trailing digit/number

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Substituting all but a trailing digit/number
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:22:56 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:200707131248.l6DCmHAI018710
@news01.csr.com:

> zzapper wrote:
>> 
>> I want to generalise top3 into top4,top5..etc
>> 
>> But how could I get filter just the trailing number (in VIM I would use 
>> memory)
> 
> Use
> 
>   num=${(M)0%%<->}
> 
> The (M) tells the shell to substitute the matched part instead of
> removing the matched part.
Thanks Peter,
And If I wanted to anchor the number to the end?



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