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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help to replace character strings Post 55929 by rahulrathod on Wednesday 22nd of September 2004 11:01:23 AM
Old 09-22-2004
Question Help to replace character strings

Hello Can Any1 help me.

I want to replace a specific character string inside a file at a specific location with a particular character with the help of a command or a shell script.
The tr command replaces a specific character with another for all the occurences of that character in the file.
I don't know wat to do.
 

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XmTextFieldReplaceWcs(library call)									       XmTextFieldReplaceWcs(library call)

NAME
XmTextFieldReplaceWcs -- A TextField function that replaces part of a wide character string in a TextField widget SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/TextF.h> void XmTextFieldReplaceWcs( Widget widget, XmTextPosition from_pos, XmTextPosition to_pos, wchar_t *wcstring); DESCRIPTION
XmTextFieldReplaceWcs replaces part of the wide character string in the TextField widget. The character positions begin at 0 (zero) and are numbered sequentially from the beginning of the text. An example text replacement would be to replace the second and third characters in the text string. To accomplish this, the parameter from_pos must be 1 and to_pos must be 3. To insert a string after the fourth character, both parameters, from_pos and to_pos, must be 4. This routine calls the widget's XmNvalueChangedCallback and verification callbacks, either XmNmodifyVerifyCallback or XmNmodifyVerifyCall- backWcs, or both. If both verification callback lists are registered, the procedures of the XmNmodifyVerifyCallback list are executed first and the resulting data is passed to the XmNmodifyVerifyCallbackWcs callbacks. If the XmNcursorPosition resource is greater than or is the same value as from_pos, the XmNmotionVerifyCallback is called. widget Specifies the TextField widget ID from_pos Specifies the start position of the text to be replaced to_pos Specifies the end position of the text to be replaced wcstring Specifies the wide character string value to be added to the TextField widget For a complete definition of TextField and its associated resources, see XmTextField(3). RELATED
XmTextField(3) and XmTextFieldReplace(3). XmTextFieldReplaceWcs(library call)
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