Definitely I can tell you, what is the logic mistake in your code.
Your code is,
Code:
sed '
s/>[^>]*<\//\n&/g
:loop
s/\(\n>[^>]*\)_\([^>]*<\/\)/\1_Q\2/
t loop
s/\n//g' a
In your code,
s/\(\n>[^>]*\)_\([^>]*<\/\)/\1_Q\2/ this line substitutes _ to _Q from right side ( not from left side).
1. In the first iteration, it will substitute This_is_a_test to This_is_a_Qtest
2. In 2nd iteration, it will substitute This_is_a_Qtest to This_is_a_QQtest
3. In the third iteration, it will substitute This_is_a_QQtest to This_is_a_QQQtest
and it will go keep on like this, it never ends.....
This is the reason that your solution works when you replace only with Q, not with _Q.
You can see how the sed substitues,by executing the following code....
Code:
sed '
s/>[^>]*<\//\n&/g
:loop
s/\(\n>[^>]*\)_\([^>]*<\/\)/\1_Q\2/p ## prints the pattern space.
t loop
s/\n//g' input
Thanks for the explanations and sample script showing that I was creating an infinite loop!
I'm not sure if I need to start a new thread, but I noticed that the code suggested is unable to accomplish the task if the second tag is on a new line. For example:
Code:
Input:
<MY_BIG_TAG>This_is_a_test
</MY_BIG_TAG>
Code:
sed '
s/>[^>]*<\//\n&/g
:loop
s/\(\n>[^>]*\)_\([^>]*<\/\)/\1_Q\2/
t loop
s/\n//g' a
Do I need to have separate sed lines: one to find cases that fit the normal model where the start and end tags are on the same line and a second sed command that looks for those instances in which the line contains a start tag but ends with a newline character?
---------- Post updated 09-17-09 at 11:33 AM ---------- Previous update was 09-16-09 at 05:14 PM ----------
This may not be very elegant, but it seems to work:
Code:
Input
<MY_BIG_TAG>This_is_a_test</MY_BIG_TAG>
<MY_SECOND_BIG_TAG>This_is_a_second_test_where_end_tag_is_on_next_line
</MY_SECOND_BIG_TAG>
Code
#/usr/bin/sh
#Script goal: replace all underscores between tags with "_Q"
#
#The first section handles lines containing both a start and end tag.
sed '
s/\(<[^>]*>\)\([^>]*\)\(<[^>]*>\)/\1\n\2\3/g
:loop
s/\n\([^<_]*\)_/\1_Q\n/g
/\n[^<_]*_/b loop
s/\n//g
# The second section handles lines only containing a start tag.
s/\(<[^>]*>\)\([^>]*\)\($\)/\1\n\2\3/g
:loop
s/\n\([^<_]*\)_/\1_Q\n/g
/\n[^<_]*_/b loop
s/\n//g' test1.htm
Output
<MY_BIG_TAG>This_Qis_Qa_Qtest</MY_BIG_TAG>
<MY_SECOND_BIG_TAG>This_Qis_Qa_Qsecond_Qtest_Qwhere_Qend_Qtag_Qis_Qon_Qnext_Qline
</MY_SECOND_BIG_TAG>
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