Hi,

If the names and addresses in your text file are separated by one or more tabs, you can try this on the *nix command line:

cat <text-file-name> | expand | tr -s " " | cut -d ' ' -f1 > <another-text-file-name>

If the names and addresses in your text file are separated by one or more spaces, you can even try this:

cat <text-file-name> | tr -s " " | cut -d ' ' -f1 > <another-text-file-name>

The first option will work in every case.

-Parul Mathur

-----Original Message----- From: "Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri." spavri@vsnl.com Subject: [ILUG-BOM] regexp query Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:00:26 +0530

I have a text file in the format

Full name email@ddress

It's a pretty long list of names and I want to remove all the email addresses from the file. I basically want to be left with a file with only the names of the persons, one on each line.

I tried :s [a-z]@[a-z] //g in vim but it did not work. It says E59: invalid charcter after @

how can I do this ?

thanks,

Sharukh.