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Old 05-10-2002
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Wow. That is a tough one.

I came up with a Perl solution, but would like to see a more elegant sed/awk solution as well.


Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Auswipe - 10 May 2002
# Auswipe sez "No Guarantees!"
# Auswipe also sez "Test and Double Test! Auswipe is not responsible if anything gets franked!"

# Convert tic into double tic for contractions
# and single tic in names

open(QUERY, "query.txt") || die "$!";
open(NEWQUERY, ">query2.txt") || die "$!";

while ($inputLine = <QUERY>) {
  while ($inputLine =~ m/(\w+)'(\w+)/) {
    my $fore = $1;
    my $aft  = $2;
    $inputLine =~ s/$fore'$aft/$fore"$aft/g;
  };
  print NEWQUERY "$inputLine";
};

Sample usage:


Code:
FreeBSD:joeuser:/home/joeuser/sample $ ll
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x   1 joeuser  joeuser   519 May 10 10:35 perltic
-rw-r--r--   1 joeuser  joeuser   168 May 10 10:31 query.txt
FreeBSD:joeuser:/home/joeuser/sample $ ./perltic
FreeBSD:joeuser:/home/joeuser/sample $ ll
total 10
-rwxr-xr-x   1 joeuser  joeuser   519 May 10 10:35 perltic
-rw-r--r--   1 joeuser  joeuser   168 May 10 10:31 query.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 joeuser  joeuser   168 May 10 10:38 query2.txt
FreeBSD:joeuser:/home/joeuser/sample $ cat query2.txt
NSERT INTO ALL_USER_HOTSPOT_DETAILS (USR_LOGIN,USR_LASTNAME,USR_FIRSTNAME,USR_EMAIL,
PROPERTYNR)
VALUES ('SABRDAG','D"AGOS','SABRINA','sabrina_d"agos@sheraton.com',70)
FreeBSD:joeuser:/home/joeuser/sample $

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