[oclug] Search & replace Q.

[Jon Earle]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Joe Burpee wrote:

> perl -i.bak -pe '/OBJECT\s*box\s*=\s*blahblah/../;/ and
>  s/(STYLE\s*=\s*")thisstyle"/$1thatstyle"/' filename
>
> This assumes no extra `;' inside quotes, etc.  Also it changes the file
> in-place, with backup in filename.bak.
>
> See `man perlop' for the `..' operator.

Thanks Joe, and Patrick.  I actually ended up using the perl variant of
Joe's as I understand perl more than sed... guess what I need to learn
next.  :)  It worked like a charm!

Cheers!
Jon


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