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Thank you DopeGhoti. Your expression does work but do you know why the expression I wrote doesn't? I'm wondering just in case I need to check another kind of output that I need.

Rinaldi Segecin
– Rinaldi Segecin

2016-02-11 20:23:06 +00:00
Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 20:23
I think it's because your regex checker settings on the site you linked were for perl-compatible regex, and awk uses a slightly different flavor in which, as a comment on your OP mentions, needs a lot more escaping of special characters. awk is more Cish than perlish.

DopeGhoti
– DopeGhoti

2016-02-11 20:46:30 +00:00
Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 20:46

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