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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df49a7370909170745y44067b1l9348d00455af4009@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56a297000909170716q6f2fe75dqf2abfbf89cb20265@mail.gmail.com>

another approach, build up a regexp and use that:

fn changefield {
	n = $1
	repl = $2
	s=')([^ 	]+)(.*)'
	for(i in `{seq 1 `{echo $n 1 -p | dc}}){
		s='[^ 	]+[ 	]+'^$s
	}
	s='('^$s
	sed 's/'^$s^'/\1'^$repl^'\3/'
}

(N.B. if the replacement string
might contain / or \, those characters would need
quoting)



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17  8:23 Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17  8:37 ` matt
2009-09-17  8:52   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17  9:04 ` matt
2009-09-17  9:12   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 10:42     ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 12:35       ` yy
2009-09-17 12:55         ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 15:51     ` Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX
2009-09-17 16:02       ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 16:20         ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 16:55         ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:04           ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:10             ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:19               ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:34                 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 20:33                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 20:46                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 21:09                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:22                         ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:24                         ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 14:16 ` Noah Evans
2009-09-17 14:45   ` roger peppe [this message]
2009-09-17 17:03   ` Rudolf Sykora

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