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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace Text Based On Pattern Post 302362869 by Time2IPL on Sunday 18th of October 2009 10:21:12 AM
Old 10-18-2009
clarification
Quote:
Originally Posted by Grizzly
That will replace

Code:
<styleURL>#style0002</styleURL>
<name>*******6105*******</name>

with

Code:
<styleURL>#style0003</styleURL>
<name>*******6105*******</name>

?

Just double checking.
It's the right idea - at least, it's how I would go about it - however, I think Franklin52 made a few typos, though, and one mistake.

First, s/6109/6105/; then, un-escape '<' and '>' ('\<' and '\>' have a meaning of their own; they match the empty string at the begging, end of a word). I would lose the '1' after the closing '}' as well; I think that's a typo (if I'm wrong and it does serve a purpose, someone please correct me...).

Keep in mind that the code as presented below doesn't need an explicit 'next' statement - you can include one, but you don't need to in this instance (it's implicit). If you ever have a need to skip to the next record immediately after doing something, though, use next; it's analogous to continue in a for loop.

Fix those minor issues and I think that code will do what you want it to do; that is, assuming that I'm understand correctly what you're trying to do. Restated, that code is:

Code:
awk '/<styleURL>#style0002<\/styleURL>/ {
   print "<styleURL>#style0003</styleURL>";
   print "<name>#######6105#######</name>";
   getline;
}'

Personally, I love awk for tasks of this nature.

- Larry
Last edited by Time2IPL; 10-18-2009 at 11:22 AM.. Reason: fix code tags
 

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