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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers square brackets Post 47124 by oombera on Tuesday 3rd of February 2004 10:29:50 AM
Old 02-03-2004
One possibility: sed 's/\[[A-Z]*\]/\[replacement-string\]/g'

But this is ksh and you don't say what you're using. Feel free to search the forums as well ... there's plenty of examples and different ways to do this.
 

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HTTP_BUILD_URL(3)							 1							 HTTP_BUILD_URL(3)

http_build_url - Build a URL

SYNOPSIS
string http_build_url ([mixed $url], [mixed $parts], [int $flags = HTTP_URL_REPLACE], [array &$new_url]) DESCRIPTION
Build a URL. The parts of the second URL will be merged into the first according to the flags argument. PARAMETERS
o $url - (part(s) of) a URL in form of a string or associative array like parse_url(3) returns o $parts - same as the first argument o $flags - a bitmask of binary or'ed HTTP_URL constants; HTTP_URL_REPLACE is the default o $new_url - if set, it will be filled with the parts of the composed url like parse_url(3) would return RETURN VALUES
Returns the new URL as string on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A http_build_url(3) example <?php echo http_build_url("http://user@www.example.com/pub/index.php?a=b#files", array( "scheme" => "ftp", "host" => "ftp.example.com", "path" => "files/current/", "query" => "a=c" ), HTTP_URL_STRIP_AUTH | HTTP_URL_JOIN_PATH | HTTP_URL_JOIN_QUERY | HTTP_URL_STRIP_FRAGMENT ); ?> The above example will output: ftp://ftp.example.com/pub/files/current/?a=c SEE ALSO
parse_url(3), http_build_str(3). PHP Documentation Group HTTP_BUILD_URL(3)
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