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06-01-2012
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Use Regex to identify / format a complex string
First of all, please have mercy on me. I am not a noob to programming, but I am about as noob as you can get with regex. That being said, I have a problem. I've got a string that looks something like this: Code:
Publication - Bob M. Jones, Tony X. Stark, and Fred D. Man, \"Really Awesome Article Title Here,\" Journal of Awesome People and Stuff, vol. 139, no. 2, October 15, 1990,1,1, pp. 381-391. And I want to format it so that it looks like this: Code:
<h4><ul><li>\"Really Awesome Article Title Here,\"<br/><small>- Bob M. Jones, Tony X. Stark, and Fred D. Man<br/>- Journal of Awesome People and Stuff, vol. 139, no. 2, October 15, 1990,1,1, pp. 381-391.</small></li></ul></h4> I've been trying to figure out 'sed', but for the life of me I can't understand regular expressions. All I was able to come up with was this: Code:
sed 's_Publication -\(.*\), \(".*"\)\( *\.\)_<h4><ul><li>\2<br/><small>- \1<br/>-\3</small></li></ul></h4>_g' < $infile > $outfileBut that doesn't work at all, and it probably has as many syntax errors as possible. I realize that it may seem that I'm lazy and just want somebody to do this for me, but I am here to learn! Last edited by radoulov; 06-01-2012 at 05:06 PM.. |
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06-04-2012
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Ok, I managed to get it. Found out that the text editor I started using a couple days ago (TextWrangler, on Mac OS X) has support for grep built in. Searched for this: Code:
Publication - ([ a-zA-Z.]+), (\\"[^\\"]+\\") ([^\"]+) and replaced it with: Code:
<h4><ul><li>\2<br/><small>- \1<br/></small>\3</li></ul></h4> |
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