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#1: Jul 19 '09
what is the regular expression for sed to match names :such as jTom,kTalor,mJane.

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#2: Jul 20 '09

re: unix regular expression

try this one :) in case the names don't include special characters:

Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers
  1. ^[a-z][A-Z][a-zA-Z]+$
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