Help with a regular expression???
Ray Parrish
crp at cmc.net
Wed Jan 27 16:39:10 UTC 2010
Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Wed, January 27, 2010 15:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>
>> However that may be, I would suggest a perl filter, which is a one-liner
>> suitable for a pipeline.
>> perl -p -e 's/ ([^ ])/_ \1/g;'
>> translation:
>> -p: copy everything in a loop
>> -e: statement for the loop follows
>> s/ / /g: do a substitution on everything (g=multiple times on a
>> line)
>> ( ): remember this
>> [^ ]: a character class consisting of any one non-space character.
>> Probably does not match newlines either.
>> \1 : the first remembered thing
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>
> The same regex syntax can be used with the bash command sed:
>
> sed 's/ ([^ ])/_ \1/g'
>
>
> This *may* be a bit faster than using heavyweight perl. OTOH perl can do a
> lot more than sed, so it depends on what you want to do.
>
Thanks for the quick answer, and forgive me for being ignorant, but how
would I call that sed command to get it to work on a variable, and
return it's value into that variable?
Suppose the variable name is DescriptionSection, how do I pipe the sed
command to it?
Thanks again, Ray Parrish
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