searching for specific strings

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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Subject: searching for specific strings
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Miles Beck wrote:

> How can I do a search and have the search not match substring=" ". I need it
> to only match when there is a value there instead of the " ".


What tool are you using? (grep?)

Using regular expressions or Perl regular expressions (or prce)?

Just use something like:

substring="[^ ]"

Feel free to share some log entries and the tool you are using for us to
help.

Good luck,

Jeremy C. Reed

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