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Old 12-08-2009
placing a string
Hi,

I have a small requriement to change a part of string in a sentence starting with "ho".

For E.g I am having the following statements:

Code:
I want to go to home,beach.
I will never go to that horrible,place.

Now I want to replace the string starting with "ho" in the above 2 statements it is "home" and "horrible" with "school"

Expected Result:

Code:
I want to go to school,beach.
I will never go to that school,place.

I was earlier using
Code:
sed -e 's/ho.*/school/'

command but this results in something like this:

Code:
 
I want to go to school.
I will never go to that school.

can anyone pls help on this??
Last edited by zaxxon; 12-08-2009 at 02:31 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 12-08-2009
Code:
sed 's/ho[^,]*,/school,/g' infile
I want to go to school,beach.
I will never go to that school,place.

# 3  
Old 12-08-2009
hi.. try this
Code:
echo "i want to go to home,beach" | perl -wln -e 's/^(.*)\bho.*,(.*)/$1school,$2/ and print'
Output:
I want to go to school,beach.

# 4  
Old 12-08-2009
sed -e 's/ho.*,/school,/' input
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