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Old 12-07-2015
sed Find and Replace Text Between Two Strings or Words
I am looking for a sed in which I can recognize all of the text in between two indicators and then replace it with a place holder.

For instance, the 1st indicator is a list of words
Code:
"no|noone|havent"

and the 2nd indicator is a list of punctuation
Code:
 ".|,|!".

From a sentence such as

Code:
"noone understands me."

I want to recognize "understands me" and add an affix onto the end of each word, desired result being
Code:
"noone understands_AFFIX me_AFFIX."

.

I know that there is the sed:
Code:
sed -n '/WORD1/,/WORD2/p' /path/to/file

which recognizes the content between two indicators, but I am not able to adapt it properly to accurately and efficiently solve my specific issue. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Last edited by owwow14; 12-07-2015 at 01:00 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-07-2015
Where has your second indicator gone in the result?
I don't think you can do that with sed, but e.g. awk would lend itself to solve your ptoblem.
# 3  
Old 12-07-2015
Sorry @RudiC when I was writing the question, I forgot to include it when copying and pasting.

I was not aware that this could be done with awk . How would you suggest attacking this problem using that?
# 4  
Old 12-07-2015
Given that
- indicator 1 & 2 arein line 1 & 2 of file1
- the indicator2 (= period in this sample) is a word of its own in file2
you can try
Code:
awk '
NR==1   {for (n=split($0, T, "|"); n>0; n--) S1[T[n]]
         next
        }
NR==2   {for (n=split($0, T, "|"); n>0; n--) S2[T[n]]
         next
        }
        {for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)  {if ($i in S1)  {L = 1
                                                 continue
                                                }
                                 if ($i in S2)   L = 0
                                 if (L)  $i = $i "_AFFIX"
                                }
        }
1
' file1 file2
noone understands_AFFIX me_AFFIX .

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