[ale] Question on Regex or sed

[Horkan Smith]

Try

# removes a comma at end of line
sed 's/,$//'

or

# removes a comma and any spaces at end of line
sed 's/, *$//'


later!
   horkan

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 06:00:16PM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
> I did an update, but when I run, I notice that it placed an extra , on the end.
> 
> I been searching have a very bad headache from it, looking for how to
> remove that extra ,
> 
> The problem is from the following string
> 
> city, state
> 
> I tried this before doing my search
> 
> sed 's'/\,//g'
> 
> That removed the first common
> 
> city st,
> 
> I remember that you need to use ^ $, so what is it that I need to
> remove that common on the end.
> 
> Sorry, I am not good at regex, so I need a bit of help.
> 
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