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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk/sed - add space between dot and letter Post 302759919 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 23rd of January 2013 05:28:02 AM
Old 01-23-2013
But here the task is to replace "." when prefixed and followed by an uppercase character.
Test:
Code:
echo ...A.1.B.C.D.E.FX. | sed 's/\([A-Z]\)\.\([A-Z]\)/\1. \2/g'

...A.1.B. C.D. E.FX.
You further see how the /g modifier works. It repeats the expression on the remainder of the line, after the part that was covered by the previous expression.
If the repetition should include the last character of the previous expression, things become complicated. In this case one can run the whole statement twice:
Code:
echo ...A.1.B.C.D.E.FX. | sed 's/\([A-Z]\)\.\([A-Z]\)/\1. \2/g; s/\([A-Z]\)\.\([A-Z]\)/\1. \2/g'

...A.1.B. C. D. E. FX.
 

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Test::Regression(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Test::Regression(3pm)

NAME

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VERSION

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SYNOPSIS

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