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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX BASH replace char with dash w/o SED Post 302561671 by needsomehelp on Tuesday 4th of October 2011 10:39:47 PM
Old 10-04-2011
Thanks! That worked! I have used 'tr' before but I wasn't familiar using it in this manner. I was able to get my program going; however, when it echos to the screen, there is an extra dash for the random word (ie if the word is dog, it will have four dashes '----' and when I select d,o,g, the program thinks there is one additional character/dash.

Any thoughts why this might be doing this?

The line I have now is:
Code:
  display=$(echo "$word" | tr -c "${chars}" '[-*]')

I tried to enter a minus on the word but that didn't resolve the issue. I'm not sure why it is adding an extra character.
Last edited by vbe; 10-05-2011 at 11:20 AM..
 

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vlatai(1L)																vlatai(1L)

NAME

       vlatai - Lojban word analyzer

SYNOPSIS

       vlatai [ -v ] [ word ]

DESCRIPTION

       vlatai is a program that reads a list of Lojban words from standard input, one word per line.  In its usual mode, it writes a single output
       line for each input line, advising of which kind of Lojban word the input line is.   If the input word has cmavo prefixed onto  it,  vlatai
       shows the individual cmavo and the base word itself.

       In the verbose mode (obtained using -v), the workings of the internal state machines used for scanning the word are exposed.  This may give
       some insight into where an error lies on words that can't be parsed, especially if the output is used in conjuction with the  report  files
       built during the compilation process.

       Note that vlatai is primarily a testbench for the word categorizer/splitter inside jbofihe.  vlatai is not fully supported or documented as
       a stand-alone program.

OPTIONS

       -v     Verbose; show lots of information about the evolution of the internal state

       word   The word to check.  If no 'word' argument is supplied, the program reads words from standard input,  one	word  per  line  (with	no
	      whitespace around it.)

REFERENCES

       http://go.to/jbofihe
	      Home page for the jbofihe project (of which cmafihe is part)

       http://www.lojban.org/
	      Home page of the Lojban community

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AUTHOR

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								   December 2000							vlatai(1L)
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