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Old 05-10-2011
Replace with sed
Hi,
I have values in a file at Place $1 as AmericanDollar, AustralianDollar, Singapore1Dollar and so on on various rows. I want to replace Dollar with Pound for all those records where no numeric character is present in the string. Means in above mentioned values 'Singapore1Dollar' should not be altered. Only AmericanDollar and AustralianDollar should be replaced with AmericanPound and australianPound. I tried this with sed. Command is as follows.
Code:
sed 's/[A-Za-z]*\'Dollar\'/\1\'Pound\'/g' coins4.txt coins5.txt

I'm getting error as
Code:
'sed: command garbled: s/[A-Za-z]*.\Dollar'/1'Pound'/g coins4.txt > coins5.txt'

Current contents of coins4 file are as follows.
Code:
CurrencyName WeightInAunces Year
AmericanDollar 2 1898
Australian1Dollar 3 1901
GBPound 1 1882
GermanySterling 2 1891
FrenchSterling 2 1897

Can anyone help me please.

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Last edited by zaxxon; 05-10-2011 at 04:02 AM.. Reason: entering error message; zaxxon: code tags
# 2  
Old 05-10-2011
try this one:

Code:
sed "s/'[A-Za-z]*Dollar'/\1'Pound'/g" coins4.txt coins5.txt

# 3  
Old 05-10-2011
Thanks for reply. I tried this at my end but still getting the same error.
Code:
 sed: command garbled: s/'[A-Za-z]*Dollar'/\1'Pound'/g

# 4  
Old 05-10-2011
Can you post a sample input file and output expected? Then maybe I could come up with a sed script.

---------- Post updated at 02:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:17 AM ----------

Sorry I missed to notice. you have used \1. You can only use when you are grouping the expression.

---------- Post updated at 02:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:18 AM ----------

Try this:

Code:
 
s/\('[A-Za-z]*\)Dollar'/\1Pound'/g

# 5  
Old 05-10-2011
Try this:

Code:
echo AmericanDollar, AustralianDollar, Singapore1Dollar | sed -r "s/([a-zA-Z]Dollar)/Pound/g"

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# 6  
Old 05-10-2011
Try:
Code:
sed 's/^\([^0-9][^0-9]*\)Dollar/\1Pound/' infile

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# 7  
Old 05-10-2011
Should also work but a bit less restrictive (allow digit in pattern if not just preceeding the "D" of "Dollar")
Code:
sed 's/\(.*[^0-9]\)Dollar/\1Pound/' infile

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