Try something like this... captures the char_data variable (ch, victim, etc) and specifies that it has to be followed by ->act in order to match, which you can change to ->comm or whatever...
-pe 's/REMOVE_BIT\(\s*([^-?]*)->act/remove_bit(&\1->act/g' -i.BAK *.c Richard Lindsey. -----Original Message----- From: Tristan M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: regular expression search and replace thats really handy especially for re-doing all the flag bits at once, is there a way to make it distinguish between, say ch->act and ch->comm so it only changes the act's and not the comm's? >From: "Richard Lindsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Chad Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: regular expression search and replace >Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:43:23 -0500 > >And I'd just like to add my \s* into that regex, because a lot of people >put a space between the opening parentheses and their text, like >REMOVE_BIT( ch->act, PLR_WHATEVER ), and so with the regex below, you >run the risk of winding up with remove_bit(& ch->act, PLR_WHATEVER ), >but if you use: > >perl -pe 's/REMOVE_BIT\(\s*/remove_bit(&/g' -i.BAK *.c > >then that should compensate for any amount of whitespace... also, should >the ampersand be escaped? I know it had to be in vi in order to work >correctly, and regexes generally use that as an end-of-string marker >similar to the beginning-of-string ^ marker... Just 2 additional cents >:D > >Richard Lindsey. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chad Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 4:41 PM >To: Michael Barton >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: regular expression search and replace > >--- Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [red ~/test/]$ perl -pe 's/REMOVE_BIT\(/remove_bit(&/g' -i *.c > > > > ...I'd make a backup first. > > > > Oh, and real men write their code with echo. Or maybe cat. > > echo '#include <stdio.h>' >> test.c > > > > --Palrich. > > >Actually if you do > >perl -pe 's/REMOVE_BIT\(/remove_bit(&/g' -i.BAK *.c > >it will automatically backup the files, appending a .BAK extension. > >-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >Version 3.12 >GCS/IT/L/S/O d-(+) s++: a-(?) C++++$ UBLS++++$ >P+++(--)$ L++++$ E--- W+$ N !o K? w(---) !O >M- !V PS+ PE(-) Y+ PGP->+ t+ 5 X++ R(+) tv+@ >b+(++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++ h---() r+++ y+++(++) >------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > >______________________________________________________ >Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. >http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ >-- >ROM mailing list >[email protected] >Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >-- >ROM mailing list >[email protected] >Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom -- ROM mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
