Re: FN-FORUM: regex ?

date posted 19th August 2005 17:25

Ian Robertson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> How do I get the first char of a word using a sed style substitute ?
>
> Odd thing to want to do ( and I know it should be trivial ) - am trying to
> write some templates for the vim - tskeleton set and want to generate the
> access key letter for a form element when the ident for the element is given.
>
> The tskeleton scripts provide an s/ / / modifier for input strings.
>
> BTW anyone else using vim & tskeleton ?
>
> Cheers
> Ian
>
>

echo "this really works" | sed -e 's/\s*\(\S\)\S*/\1 /g'

This gets the first character of every word. More precisely it displays
(separated by a space) the first of every group of non-space characters.

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