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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting text file search and replace with awk Post 302487662 by michaelrozar17 on Thursday 13th of January 2011 06:56:45 AM
Old 01-13-2011
thru sed..
Code:
sed '/FIELD/s/>[^>].*</>REPLACEMENT</' text.xml > outfile

 

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DwtSTextReplace(3Dwt)													     DwtSTextReplace(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtSTextReplace - Replaces a portion of the current text string in the simple text widget or inserts a new substring in the text.

Syntax
       void DwtSTextReplace(widget, from_pos, to_pos, value)
	    Widget widget;
	    int from_pos, to_pos;
	    DwtCompString value;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the simple text widget whose text string you want to replace.

       from_pos  Specifies the beginning character position within the text string marking the text being replaced.

       to_pos	 Specifies the last character position within the text string marking the text being replaced.

       value	 Specifies the text to replace part of the current text in the simple text widget.

Description
       The  DwtSTextReplace  function  replaces  part of the text string in the simple text widget.  Within the window, the positions are numbered
       starting from 0 and increasing sequentially.  For example, to replace the second and third characters in the string, from_pos should  be  1
       and to_pos should be 3.	To insert a string after the fourth character, from_pos and to_pos should both be 4.

See Also
       DwtSText(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetString(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt),  DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtS-
       TextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextClearSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															     DwtSTextReplace(3Dwt)
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