On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:29 +0100, michael wrote: > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > incantation... > > > given a file with many strings, include many of the form > <a href="some url or other">www</a> > > I wish each to be transformed to > <a href="some url or other">some url or other</a> > > ie so literal 'www' is replaced with the actual URL for each > occurance...
Well, it's not 'sed' (I prefer the PCRE), but this perl script ought to
get you off the ground.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
while (<>) {
chomp;
if (my ($url) = /<a href="([^"]*?)">www<\/a>/) {
print "<a href=\"$url\">$url</a>\n";
}
}
Cheers,
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