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Old 07-17-2008
Annihilannic Annihilannic is offline Forum Advisor  
  
 

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You only have one "variable" in sed, which is called the "hold space". You can copy or append the current "pattern space" to the "hold space", or you can exchange the two, but inserting the contents of one in the middle of the other is difficult.

You would do much better with awk or perl or similar.