05-05-2016
In post #1 in this thread, you showed us two lines of input and said that you wanted to add a word to any line your input file that exactly matched the 1st input line (and maybe then only if the next line contained additional specific text. All of the code suggestions that were made for you assumed that the data you were processing matched the data you said you want to change (explicitly that the text you wanted to change contained the characters !ADS at the end of an input line). So, since you lied about the format of your input data, none of the suggested code matched the input you actually want to change. This is known by the common computer science term GIGO (meaning: garbage in, garbage out).
Now that we know what your data really looks like, I'm sure one of the other people who suggested code before can help you create an RE that can be used to change your data the way you want it to appear. (Although it still isn't clear to me whether you want to add text, or replace existing blanks with the added or replacement text you want to insert.)
It is way past my bedtime, so I'm not going to attempt to figure out what you really want at least until I get some sleep.
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wrjpgcom
WRJPGCOM(1) General Commands Manual WRJPGCOM(1)
NAME
wrjpgcom - insert text comments into a JPEG file
SYNOPSIS
wrjpgcom [ -replace ] [ -comment text ] [ -cfile name ] [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
wrjpgcom reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is named, and generates a new JPEG/JFIF file on standard output.
A comment block is added to the file.
The JPEG standard allows "comment" (COM) blocks to occur within a JPEG file. Although the standard doesn't actually define what COM blocks
are for, they are widely used to hold user-supplied text strings. This lets you add annotations, titles, index terms, etc to your JPEG
files, and later retrieve them as text. COM blocks do not interfere with the image stored in the JPEG file. The maximum size of a COM
block is 64K, but you can have as many of them as you like in one JPEG file.
wrjpgcom adds a COM block, containing text you provide, to a JPEG file. Ordinarily, the COM block is added after any existing COM blocks;
but you can delete the old COM blocks if you wish.
OPTIONS
Switch names may be abbreviated, and are not case sensitive.
-replace
Delete any existing COM blocks from the file.
-comment text
Supply text for new COM block on command line.
-cfile name
Read text for new COM block from named file.
If you have only one line of comment text to add, you can provide it on the command line with -comment. The comment text must be sur-
rounded with quotes so that it is treated as a single argument. Longer comments can be read from a text file.
If you give neither -comment nor -cfile, then wrjpgcom will read the comment text from standard input. (In this case an input image file
name MUST be supplied, so that the source JPEG file comes from somewhere else.) You can enter multiple lines, up to 64KB worth. Type an
end-of-file indicator (usually control-D) to terminate the comment text entry.
wrjpgcom will not add a COM block if the provided comment string is empty. Therefore -replace -comment "" can be used to delete all COM
blocks from a file.
EXAMPLES
Add a short comment to in.jpg, producing out.jpg:
wrjpgcom -c "View of my back yard" in.jpg > out.jpg
Attach a long comment previously stored in comment.txt:
wrjpgcom in.jpg < comment.txt > out.jpg
or equivalently
wrjpgcom -cfile comment.txt < in.jpg > out.jpg
SEE ALSO
cjpeg(1), djpeg(1), jpegtran(1), rdjpgcom(1)
AUTHOR
Independent JPEG Group
15 June 1995 WRJPGCOM(1)