Regular Expressions 101

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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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# If you'd like to omit non-matching lines from the result; add ';d' to the end of the expression. sed -E 's/^\s*(lr_start_transaction.*\))\s*;\s*$/\1\);/gm;t' <<< "lr_start_transaction(lr_eval_string(\"{scriptid}_0070_00000000_ASP-Hinzufuegen\"); Siebel_SWECount_var -= 3; lr_save_int(Siebel_SWECount_var, \"Siebel_SWECount\"); web_save_timestamp_param(\"SiebelTimeStamp\", LAST); web_add_cookie(\"SWEUAID=6; DOMAIN={domain}\"); web_url(\"start.swe_60\", \"URL={url_start}?SWECmd=ShowPopupFrames&SWEDIC=1&SWEU={url_start}%3fSWECmd%3dGetCachedFrame%26SWEC%3d47%26SWEFrame%3dtop._sweclient._swecontent._sweview._swetmp%26SRN%3d{Siebel_SRN10}%26SWESP%3d1%26SRN%3d{Siebel_SRN10}&SRN={Siebel_SRN10}\", \"TargetFrame=\", \"Resource=0\", \"RecContentType=text/html\", \"Referer=\", \"Snapshot=t587.inf\", \"Mode=HTML\", LAST); lr_end_transaction(lr_eval_string(\"{scriptid}_0070_00000000_ASP-Hinzufuegen\"),LR_AUTO); lr_think_time(iThinktime); lr_start_transaction(lr_eval_string(\"{scriptid}_0080_00000000_ASP-Hinzufuegen-Eingabe\"); Siebel_SWECount_var += 4; lr_save_int(Siebel_SWECount_var, \"Siebel_SWECount\"); web_reg_find(\"Text=Error\",\"Search=Body\", \"Fail=Found\", LAST); web_submit_data(\"start.swe_61\", \"Action={url_start}\", \"Method=POST\", \"TargetFrame=\", \"RecContentType=text/html\", \"Referer=\", \"Snapshot=t588.inf\", \"Mode=HTML\", \"EncodeAtSign=YES\", ITEMDATA, \"Name=SWEC\", \"Value={Siebel_SWECount}\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SWEMethod\", \"Value=UpdatePrefMsg\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SWERPC\", \"Value=1\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SWECmd\", \"Value=InvokeMethod\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SRN\", \"Value={Siebel_SRN10}\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SWEIPS\", \"Value=@0*0*1*0*0*3*0*5*SWEBS1*1\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SWEBS\", \"Value=1\", ENDITEM, \"Name=SWEService\", \"Value=Message Bar\", ENDITEM, LAST); "

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for SED, please visit: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s_0022-Command.html