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On 10/08/2014 08:00 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote: > I am using an older version of cygwin on a Windows 7 PC. > I have a file of data that is formatted in character separated value format. > For example, a couple of lines might be: > > "Doe, John";"Student";"Senior" > "Admin";"Staff"; > > Now, I want to perform a grep that returns lines that do not have a > comma in the "first column" of data. > > I tried the obvious > grep '^"[^,"]";' file.csv That looks for lines containing a literal quote, then exactly one quoted character that is neither comma nor quote, then another literal quote. You forgot the *: '^"[^,"]*";' Your question is not cygwin-specific. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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