sed question

[Rob DeSanno]

Works like a champ and I was sooo close. Thanks a lot for your help!!

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Josh Miller <joshua at itsecureadmin.com>wrote:

> On 08/19/2011 11:06 AM, Rob DeSanno wrote:
> ...
>
>  What I am trying to do is to change the "-" character to something else
>> ONLY
>> when it is next to a number [0-9]. What makes this a challenge for me is
>> that it can also exist next to a letter but never more than once next to a
>> number.
>>
>> The line I am using is below and works fine for what I need expect that
>> the
>> first digit of the number at the end is cut off in the table I am trying
>> to
>> build.
>>
>> '102.1'>Columbus-612
>> '104.1'>Fredericksburg-628
>> '108.1'>Garden-Grove-736
>> '101.1'>Mission-Viejo-1514
>> '104.1'>Fort-Worth-418
>> '1030.1'>Ft.-Lauderdale-304
>> '1050.1'>Hamilton-713
>>
>> sed -e "s/^'/\<tr\>\<td\>/" $stores_down | sed -e "s/'>/\<\/td\>\<td\>/" |
>> *sed
>> -e "s/-[0-9]/\<\/td\>\<td\>/"* | sed -e "s/$/\<\/td\>\<\/tr\>/">>  $log
>>
> ...
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> You're matching the hyphen and the digit following it, without capturing
> the digit to include in the resulting output.
>
> Try this, I've split the sed command into a sed script (file.sed) and the
> input file into another file (file.txt):
>
> > cat file.txt
>
> '102.1'>Columbus-612
> '104.1'>Fredericksburg-628
> '108.1'>Garden-Grove-736
> '101.1'>Mission-Viejo-1514
> '104.1'>Fort-Worth-418
> '1030.1'>Ft.-Lauderdale-304
> '1050.1'>Hamilton-713
>
> > cat file.sed
> # for each line beginning with a single quote, end the table and row
> s/^'/\<tr\>\<td\>/
> # for each '>, replace with cell divider
> s/'>/\<\/td\>\<td\>/
> # for each hyphen digit, replace hyphen with cell divider
> s/-\([0-9]\)/\<\/td\>\<td\>\1/
> # for each line ending, replace with cell/row ending
> s/$/\<\/td\>\<\/tr\>/
>
>
> > sed -f file.sed file.txt
> <tr><td>102.1</td><td>**Columbus</td><td>612</td></tr>
> <tr><td>104.1</td><td>**Fredericksburg</td><td>628</**td></tr>
> <tr><td>108.1</td><td>Garden-**Grove</td><td>736</td></tr>
> <tr><td>101.1</td><td>Mission-**Viejo</td><td>1514</td></tr>
> <tr><td>104.1</td><td>Fort-**Worth</td><td>418</td></tr>
> <tr><td>1030.1</td><td>Ft.-**Lauderdale</td><td>304</td></**tr>
> <tr><td>1050.1</td><td>**Hamilton</td><td>713</td></tr>
>
>
>
> HTH,
> --
> Josh Miller
> Open Source Solutions Architect
> http://itsecureadmin.com/
>
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