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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting non alpha characters in sed + making it fast? Post 302459561 by rich@ardz on Tuesday 5th of October 2010 03:02:29 AM
Old 10-05-2010
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
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sed 's/\(^\|[^[:alnum:]]\)\(rich\|RICH\|Rich\)\([^[:alnum:]]\|$\)/\1NICK\3/g' infile

Smilie I won't even pretend i understand how this sed works! but it does! is it possible to replace uppercase with uppercase and lower with lower or would i have to run 2 different seds... cheers Smilie
 

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ISWLOWER(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWLOWER(3)

NAME
iswlower - test for lowercase wide character SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> int iswlower(wint_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The iswlower() function is the wide-character equivalent of the islower(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "lower". The wide-character class "lower" is a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", and therefore also a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", of the wide-character class "graph" and of the wide-character class "print". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "print", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "space" and its subclass "blank". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alnum", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "punct". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "alpha", the wide-character class "lower" is disjoint from the wide-character class "digit". The wide-character class "lower" contains at least those characters wc which are equal to towlower(wc) and different from towupper(wc). The wide-character class "lower" always contains at least the letters 'a' to 'z'. RETURN VALUE
The iswlower() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "lower". Otherwise it returns zero. CONFORMING TO
C99. NOTES
The behavior of iswlower() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. This function is not very appropriate for dealing with Unicode characters, because Unicode knows about three cases: upper, lower and title case. SEE ALSO
islower(3), iswctype(3), towlower(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1999-07-25 ISWLOWER(3)
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