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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Use Regex to identify / format a complex string Post 302650157 by egill on Friday 1st of June 2012 04:28:11 PM
Old 06-01-2012
Data Use Regex to identify / format a complex string
First of all, please have mercy on me. I am not a noob to programming, but I am about as noob as you can get with regex. That being said, I have a problem.

I've got a string that looks something like this:

Code:
Publication - Bob M. Jones, Tony X. Stark, and Fred D. Man, \"Really Awesome Article Title Here,\" Journal of Awesome People and Stuff, vol. 139, no. 2, October 15, 1990,1,1, pp. 381-391.

And I want to format it so that it looks like this:
Code:
<h4><ul><li>\"Really Awesome Article Title Here,\"<br/><small>- Bob M. Jones, Tony X. Stark, and Fred D. Man<br/>- Journal of Awesome People and Stuff, vol. 139, no. 2, October 15, 1990,1,1, pp. 381-391.</small></li></ul></h4>

I've been trying to figure out 'sed', but for the life of me I can't understand regular expressions.

All I was able to come up with was this:

Code:
sed 's_Publication -\(.*\), \(".*"\)\( *\.\)_<h4><ul><li>\2<br/><small>- \1<br/>-\3</small></li></ul></h4>_g' < $infile > $outfile

But that doesn't work at all, and it probably has as many syntax errors as possible.

I realize that it may seem that I'm lazy and just want somebody to do this for me, but I am here to learn!
Last edited by radoulov; 06-01-2012 at 06:06 PM..
 

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irsend

IRSEND(1)							   User Commands							 IRSEND(1)

NAME

       irsend - basic LIRC program to send infra-red commands

SYNOPSIS

       irsend [options] DIRECTIVE REMOTE CODE [CODE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Asks the lircd daemon to send one or more CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) commands. This is intended for remote control of electronic devices such
       as TV boxes, HiFi sets, etc.

       DIRECTIVE can be:
	  SEND_ONCE	    - send CODE [CODE ...] once
	  SEND_START	    - start repeating CODE
	  SEND_STOP	    - stop repeating CODE
	  LIST		    - list configured remote items
	  SET_TRANSMITTERS  - set transmitters NUM [NUM ...]
	  SIMULATE	    - simulate IR event

       REMOTE is the name of a remote, as described in the lircd configuration file.

       CODE is the name of a remote control key of REMOTE, as it appears in the lircd configuration file.

       NUM is the transmitter number of the hardware device.

       For the LIST DIRECTIVE, REMOTE and/or CODE can be empty:

	  LIST	 ""    ""   - list all configured remote names
	  LIST REMOTE  ""   - list all codes of REMOTE
	  LIST REMOTE CODE  - list only CODE of REMOTE

       The SIMULATE command only works if it has been explicitly enabled in lircd.

       -h --help
	      display usage summary

       -v --version
	      display version

       -d --device
	      use given lircd socket [/var/run/lirc/lircd]

       -a --address=host[:port]
	      connect to lircd at this address

       -# --count=n
	      send command n times

EXAMPLES

	  irsend LIST DenonTuner ""
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  DenonTuner PROG-SCAN
	  irsend SEND_ONCE  OnkyoAmpli VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP
	  irsend SEND_START OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN ; sleep 3
	  irsend SEND_STOP  OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
	  irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1 3 4
	  irsend SIMULATE "0000000000000476 00 OK TECHNISAT_ST3004S"

FILES

       /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
	      Default lircd configuration file.  It should contain all the remotes, their infra-red codes and the corresponding timing	and  wave-
	      form details.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If lircd is not running (or /var/run/lirc/lircd lacks write permissions) irsend aborts with the following diagnostics:
       "irsend: could not connect to socket"
       "irsend: Connection refused" (or "Permission denied").

SEE ALSO

       The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.

       lircd(8), mode2(1), smode2(1), xmode2(1), irrecord(1), irw(1), http://www.lirc.org.

irsend 0.9.0-pre1						   October 2010 							 IRSEND(1)
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