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Old 07-29-2011
Thanks yazu and michael for your inputs.
But it didn't work.

michael, as per your suggestion, if i dont have stored a pattern in a variable, then how to I search?
I will explain my problem
1. I get a name as input to the shell script.
2. Search for the name in a file (I have mentioned how the file look like in my first post)
3. Replace the old date with the new date

What was I trying to do it?
1. Have the new date and old date in variables
2. Replace the old string with the new string in the file

Now I have changed step 2 to
2. Delete the line which has the name
3. Insert a new line along with name and new date.
 

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PX_DATE2STRING(3)					     Library Functions Manual						 PX_DATE2STRING(3)

NAME
PX_date2string -- Convert paradox date into formated string SYNOPSIS
#include <paradox.h> char * PX_date2string(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, long date, const char *format) DESCRIPTION
Creates a string representation of a paradox date as specified in the parameter format. The date must be either retrieved with PX_get_data_long(3) after calling PX_get_record(3) or by simply using the long value in the pxval_t struct as returned by PX_retrieve_record(3). The function uses internally the PX_timestamp2string(3) function. The format string may contain all chars as docu- mented with PX_timestamp2string(3), though only those concerning the date will produce resonable results. RETURN VALUE
Returns pointer to string on success and NULL on failure. SEE ALSO
PX_timestamp2string(3), PX_time2string(3) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. PX_DATE2STRING(3)
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