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Re: [Plug] String Conversion
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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.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 2000
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