From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam command language question
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:55:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOEdRO0+AxHh2GX-pCb=e4bCSrgt=xEmLXZPK1AVdFAAYKE8Xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0813ca81b8948388dfca9fed6467e9a7@quintile.net>
On 20 August 2012 13:12, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Tis the season for exotic sam command language questions,
> though mine is not that exotic.
>
> I want to edit some xml (yes I know) and capitalise all the labels
> in it. I only want to do this once so I don't care that it will
> envoke tr thousands of times and take a minuite or so.
>
> This is what I tried:
>
> ,x/label="[^"]+"/ {
> x/ [a-z]/ | tr a-z A-Z
> }
>
> sadly the inner 'x' searches onward in the file and not in
> the selection (dot) generated by the outer 'x'.
>
> I tried a few more random commands but nothing very sensible,
> anyone any ideas?
>
> Seems somthing that should be easy...
>
> -Steve
>
1) what's wrong with
,x/label="[^"]+"/ | tr a-z A-Z
?
(besides that it also capitalizes label -> LABEL; but this would do
your code too)
2) I will think about your own code later.
Ruda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 11:12 Steve Simon
2012-08-20 11:55 ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2012-08-20 12:05 ` Rudolf Sykora
2012-08-20 12:15 ` Rudolf Sykora
2012-08-20 12:25 ` Steve Simon
2012-08-20 13:21 ` Rudolf Sykora
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