skip> Feel free to suggest other alternatives for me to try.
Thinking about it a bit, shouldn't this work and be portable?
% echo $with_error_checking | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^[a-z]*//' -e
's/^,//'
It gives the correct result in the current situation. If I am interpreting
the original r.e. correctly, the aim is to remove the first word from the
beginning of the string plus any comma that follows it.
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