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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search and replace words between two keywords Post 71475 by tmarikle on Wednesday 11th of May 2005 12:15:34 PM
Old 05-11-2005
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Originally Posted by Ygor
Problem is that the regular expression /[Ff][Rr][Oo][Mm].*[Ww][Hh][Ee][Rr][Ee]/ will match the largest matching pattern, i.e. from the first "from" to the last "where".

You could try using /[Ff][Rr][Oo][Mm][^\(]*[Ww][Hh][Ee][Rr][Ee]/ which works on the example given but may not work in all cases.
Good catch; I hadn't got back to see were my error was. I also agree that there are likely to be cases that tis script doesn't with.
 

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