Need regexp help

Levi

So, I came across interesting challenge, I need regexp to select everything (including match) after this:

https://pastebin.com/Mn1fynEM

My current code sucks big time:

https://pastebin.com/d2NmmeGK

Bochi

I have no idea about regex, but played around a bit just for shits and giggles. :P
What about: ^(?:(?!(?=#)).)*$

However, I guess this would need some heavy finetuning and an or to filter the empty lines...

donli

@LTniger said:
So, I came across interesting challenge, I need regexp to select everything (including match) after this:

These days this is the job of sed, python (or something called perl that looks like random characters typed). Why do you specifically need a regexp?

Janevski

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1
$ sed -n '/OVERWRITTEN/,$p' /etc/resolv.conf | tail -n +2
nameserver 127.0.1.1
$ sed -n '/YOUR CHANGES/,$p' /etc/resolv.conf | tail -n +2
nameserver 127.0.1.1
$ 

In your case:
sed -n '/johantheghost at yahoo period com/,$p' /path/to/file.txt | tail -n +2

PS: Or this.
sed -n '/# # # # # # #/,$p' /path/to/file.txt
Anyhow this is not a regex.
Maybe i didn't understand well enough...

Janevski

Or this, but it is inferior potassium and needs more work:

$ cat ~/Downloads/Mn1fynEM.sh | grep -Pzo '.*#    #  #    #  #  #    #(.*\n)*'
   #    #  #    #  #  #    #          #####   ######  #    #   ####   #    #
   #    #  ##   #  #   #  #           #    #  #       ##   #  #    #  #    #
   #    #  # #  #  #    ##            #####   #####   # #  #  #       ######
   #    #  #  # #  #    ##            #    #  #       #  # #  #       #    #
   #    #  #   ##  #   #  #           #    #  #       #   ##  #    #  #    #
    ####   #    #  #  #    #          #####   ######  #    #   ####   #    #

   Version 5.1.3                      Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark

   Multi-CPU version                  Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
                                      Sunnyvale, CA, USA
$ echo "" >> ~/Downloads/Mn1fynEM.sh 
$ cat ~/Downloads/Mn1fynEM.sh | grep -Pzo '.*#    #  #    #  #  #    #(.*\n)*'
   #    #  #    #  #  #    #          #####   ######  #    #   ####   #    #
   #    #  ##   #  #   #  #           #    #  #       ##   #  #    #  #    #
   #    #  # #  #  #    ##            #####   #####   # #  #  #       ######
   #    #  #  # #  #    ##            #    #  #       #  # #  #       #    #
   #    #  #   ##  #   #  #           #    #  #       #   ##  #    #  #    #
    ####   #    #  #  #    #          #####   ######  #    #   ####   #    #

   Version 5.1.3                      Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark

   Multi-CPU version                  Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith,
                                      Sunnyvale, CA, USA
   January 13, 2011                   johantheghost at yahoo period com
$