I need to find all occurances of a file reference and remove two characters from the end of the reference. For example, here are a few lines showing the text:
I think I've written the correct search query which I think is:
_\d{3}\D\D
But I have no idea how to write the replacement string to remove the additional letters at the end of the string of 3 numbers and leave everything else in tact...
Not sure i was very clear before, the text I need to replace has the last two letters vary so I can't specificaly request a change on a specific set of characters like 'CR'.
The text string I need to replace is made up of varying 3 digits and then 2 letters like:
000XX
But I need to remove the two letters in each instance but preserve the rest of the text around the string as in the example:
I am using a text editing program to do this which supports GREP find and replace so need to know the GREP search query string which I think is _\d{3}\D\D and then the Replacement string which will remove the two letters at the end of the text which it finds...
() braces are used to tage the matched string, . is used to refer to a single character, numbers(1 and 3 in the code) is used to refer to the tags that is first ( \(.*\) ) and third( \(....\)/ ).
the logic would go like this: it will tag a word as the first tag, then following 2 characters as the second tag and the following 3 characters as the third tag. it will search for the whole string specified within /Search string/ and replace it with the first and third tags.
the above code is not working for me in ksh. so, here is an alternative.