String Substitution

laxmi · #1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008

Hey ppl,

Could u tell me how to replace such a string

xyz[y]->x with XYZ(x), where x can be any variable accessible by pointer to structure, xyz

in an entire file?

agn · #2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008

Try this:

Code:

perl -ne 's/([a-z]*)\[.\]->(.)/\U${1}\E\[${2}\]/; print' filename

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