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Old 07-26-2010
Help with sed search&replace between two strings
Hi, i read couple of threads here on forum, and googled about what bugs me, yet i still can't find solution.
Problem is below.
I need to change this string (with sed if it is possible):
Code:
[rquote=12345&tid=123456&author=nickname]This is message text that is being quoted[/rquote]

to look like this:
Code:
[bquote=nickname]This is message text that is being quoted[/bquote]

I managed to do this by using:
Code:
sed 's/\[rquote=.*author=/[bquote=/g'

Ok, it doesen't replace closing tag [/rquote] to [/bquote], but i can run sed again just to replace that.

That works, until it come do double quote, like this:
Code:
[rquote=12345&tid=123456&author=nickname][rquote=123456&tid=1234567&author=othernick] This is message text that is being quoted [/rquote]

How can i get above example (with double quote) to be replaced with this:
Code:
[bquote=nickname][bquote=othernickname]  This is message text that is being quoted [/bquote]

Some help?

P.S. It is not so impotrant to change those closing tags [/rquote] to [/bquote] in the same sed expression.
# 2  
Old 07-26-2010
Hi,

if your string

Code:
[rquote=12345&tid=123456&author=nickname][rquote=123456&tid=1234567&author=othernick] This is message text that is being quoted [/rquote]

is saved in a file called "file". This:

Code:
sed 's/rquote[^]]*author/bquote/g;s/rquote/bquote/' file

gives me:

Code:
[bquote=nickname][bquote=othernick] This is message text that is being quoted [/bquote]

If you echo your string on the command line, you will have to escape the "&" sings.

HTH Chris
This User Gave Thanks to Christoph Spohr For This Post:
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# 3  
Old 07-26-2010
It helps just perfectly! Smilie Tried it on one big post with lots of quotes and it works exelent. Later i will run it over whole db dump and report results.
Big thx Cris!
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