On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
Would a semicolon separator work with sed (e.g. s;;;)?
yes, ';'s will work. I've seen various characters used as delimiters:
s!/usr/home/!/home!g
s#re#replace#
s.1234556.89.g
When combining two lines as one in sed's regexp/condition, is it
possible to combine the lines with a return in between? I tried the
following types in the regexp/condition to simulate the return:
[=\n=], [=\r=], \n, \r, \015, .*, [:space:], [:cntrl:],
[:print:], [:blank:]
s/some text/&\n/ won't work
s/some text/&\
/
will work (I think).
What does "[^>]" mean in a sed regexp/condition?
"[^>]*" means zero or more characters which are _not_ '>'. Usually I put
this in to sift out html tags. Example (to catch a body tag)
"<body[^>]*>".
this will catch
<body>
<body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
<body marginwidth=0 onLoad='dothis();'>
etc
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