Re: [Chicken-users] calling all regex gurus

[felix winkelmann]

On 3/31/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> So, I need to extract the Version and Build numbers from the Chicken
> banner.  The banner as given by "chicken -version" is:
>
> $ chicken -version
>  )   ___
> (__/_____) /)   ,    /)
>   /       (/      _ (/_   _ __
>  /        / )__(_(__/(___(/_/ (_
> (______)
> Version 2, Build 3 - windows-mingw32-x86 - [ dload ptables ]
> (c)2000-2005 Felix L. Winkelmann
>
>
> So how do I write a regular expression to rip out the "2" in "Version
> 2," and the "3" in "Build 3" ?  For simplicity this can be 2 different
> regular expressions, it doesn't have to be done in 1 go.  I'm reading
> various regex howtos, but there's a learning curve and if anyone knows
> how to do it off the top of their head, I'd learn faster.  :-)
>

How about:

% csi -ne '(print (chicken-version))'


cheers,
felix