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From: Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:51:17 -0600
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
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> The trouble with this is that the same string can appear more than
> once (before, after the field, ...), so the simple substitution isn't
> enough.

It's sounding like awk is the wrong tool. It should be trivial to code
up a short piece of C to do the job.