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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed random \n for "n" range of character occurrences Post 302977637 by bakunin on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 07:02:12 PM
Old 07-20-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by p1ne
Hi, thanks for responding,
Code:
sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2

No, dots are not replaced. The idea is to put random paragraph breaks in a chunk of text, every 5 - 10 sentences, for example.

Yes I'm open to any other method.
Generally speaking: you have two problems to solve if you are using sed for this: the first is to generate a random number. Probably it will take a big lot of effort to do so (although it should in principle be possible because sed is a turing-complete language).

The second is that you are not working context-free: this is always a hassle because sed has little to offer save for a powerful regex-engine. Such problems are generally more easily solved in awk becuse this offers a programming language in addition to the regex engine.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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Text::Lorem(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  Text::Lorem(3pm)

NAME
Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text SYNOPSIS
use Text::Lorem; my $text = Text::Lorem->new(); # Generate a string of text with 5 words $words = $text->words(5); # Generate a string of text with 2 sentences $sentences = $text->sentences(2); # Generate 3 paragraphs $paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3); DESCRIPTION
Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed amounts of fake Latin text. CONSTRUCTOR
"new()" The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object. METHODS
"words( INTEGER )" Returns INTEGER fake Latin words. "sentences( INTEGER )" Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin. "paragraphs( INTEGER )" Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text. THANKS
Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard. AUTHOR
Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@fotango.com) SEE ALSO
L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All rights reserved. <http://opensource.fotango.com/> This software is released under the same license as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-01-05 Text::Lorem(3pm)
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