09-25-2009
Complete Newbie requiring help
Greetings
Just joined this forum and a complete newbie. So please be gentle
I've never really scripted before nor had a project where I required to write some code. However I have a large project which I am currently doing by manually. I was wondering if someone could help me determine what scripting language to use and possibly help with assisting me with what needs to be done.
I have a file with entries in the following format
[some text.......RedHat]
rubbish text
more text
more text
[some text.......SUSE]
rubbish text
more text
more text
[some text.......Solaris]
What I would like to create is a script that takes arguments (in this case RedHat,SUSE and Solaris] and then searches a file. When it reaches the first argument it copies the entire section starting from [ and ending when it gets to the next [.
With each section, it replaces 'rubbish' with 'good' and it saves it to a file in the format <argument>.txt
Thank you for any help offered or advice offered.
Snoops
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XmTextSetHighlight(3X) XmTextSetHighlight(3X)
NAME
XmTextSetHighlight - A Text function that highlights text
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h>
void XmTextSetHighlight (widget, left, right, mode)
Widget widget;
XmTextPosition left;
XmTextPosition right;
XmHighlightMode mode;
DESCRIPTION
XmTextSetHighlight highlights text between the two specified character positions. The mode parameter determines the type of highlighting.
Highlighting text merely changes the visual appearance of the text; it does not set the selection. Specifies the Text widget ID Specifies
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The first character position is 0. Specifies the position of the right boundary of text to be highlighted. This is an integer number of
characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. Specifies the type of highlighting to be done. A
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