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Old 12-29-2011
How to move a group of words before another group of words
Hi

I have a file containing lines with several consecutive words starting with a capital letter (i.e. Zuvaia Flex), followed by "de The New Foul", and I would like to put "The New Foul" before the group with capital letters and delete "de"
From the line:
Code:
    Le short femme Zuvaia Flex de The New Foul se distingue par


I need to obtain:
Code:
    Le short femme The New Foul Zuvaia Flex se distingue par


Another example of a line to search and replace:
le molleton Bise Chop Durel - XS de The New Foul. Composé de roustane avec barrettes de renflex

For now I have come up with a sed oneliner:
Code:
 sed 's/\( [a-z]* \)\(([A-Z][a-z]* )*\)[^A-Z ]*de \(The North Face\)/\1\3 \2/g' target.txt > done.txt



but it does not work.
Can you help me?

Thank you
Last edited by louisJ; 12-29-2011 at 08:09 AM..
# 2  
Old 12-29-2011
Hi,
Why don't you try simple search & replace.
Code:
 sed 's/Zuvaia Flex de The New Foul/The New Foul Zuvaia Flex/' filenmae

# 3  
Old 12-29-2011
Code:
# cat infile
Le short femme Zuvaia Flex de The New Foul se distingue par
Le molleton Bise Chop Durel - XS de The New Foul. Composé de roustane avec barrettes de renflex

Code:
# perl -lne '/(^.*?[a-z]\w+\s)([A-Z].*)\sde\s(?=(The New Foul)(.*))/;print $1.$3." ".$2.$4' infile          
Le short femme The New Foul Zuvaia Flex se distingue par
Le molleton The New Foul Bise Chop Durel - XS. Composé de roustane avec barrettes de renflex

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