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On 6/24/09, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:48:07 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> And while I'm at it, how do I change the field |
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>> separator from / to enable me to search on that character? |
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> By using something else, you don't need to tell sed, it works it out for |
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> itself, just use something that isn't in your search string, : is a good |
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> candidate. |
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If I read his question right, he asked about just the simple matchers: |
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//. Perl solves this problem with the optional m in front (m//), so |
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you can do m:/foo: or m+/foo+, but I don't know of a similar toggle |
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for sed (well, I'm a sed newbie, so there might still be one). |
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I don't even think substituting the string with itself (s+/foo+/foo+) |
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would work as I think s/// will succeed every time, even when it |
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doesn't actually substitute anything, so maybe it cannot be used for |
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an "if-then" in sed either? |
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