Michael W. Ryan on Sat, 11 Dec 1999 16:16:43 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] String Conversion


On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Nicolai Rosen wrote:

> I'm trying to create a shell script and I've run into a stumbling block in 
> terms of converting one string into another. cut and tr don't seem to be 
> able to do what I want. An example of what I want to do is if you had the 
> string "foobar" and you wanted to convert every instance of "oba" to "josh", 
> but you didn't want to convert the other o to anything. So the desired 
> result would be "fojoshr"

You might not want to limit yourself to a shell script.  Use a glue
language, such as Python, to do the processing for you and execute any
other programs you want to execute.

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