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Old 08-17-2007
SED for XML's

Hi
My xml has element like below

<BOOK>:</BOOK>

If i wanna replace ":</BOOK>" with ": </BOOK>" i.e 3 spaces added.

what should be the search pattern?

I tried with "?:\<\/BOOK\>", but its not working in SED. Can someone suggest what would be the search patter looks like ?

Thanks
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Old 08-17-2007
Code:
echo "<BOOK>:</BOOK>" | sed 's!:</BOOK>!:   </BOOK>!g'

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