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[Norman Gray <norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reyes,

> Sorry, I wasn't here this weekend.
> And sorry again because I don't understand, the line 
> % sed '/<[a-zA-Z0-9-]\+$/{:a;N;s/\n>/ >/;t z;s/\n/ /;b
> a;:z;s/\(<[a-zA-Z0-9-]\+\)$/\1/;t a;}' input-file 
> Where must I write this?, Is this a command of Jade?

Sorry - I think I should have given more details.

Sed is a `stream editor' which is common on unix boxes, but which has also
been ported to DOS/Windows and other platforms.  I use a script very
like this to zoom through the files generated by Jade, to reformat some
of the elements (which need to be parsed by a further tool).

I use it like

    for f in *.html; do
        sed 'blah....' $f >$f-fixed
    done

(unix-speak again, but it just applies the same script to each of the
.html files in a directory, sending the output to a new file).

As was pointed out, everything you can do in sed you can do in Perl.
Sed's nice because you can quite naturally get quite complicated
programs into a single line of a script (you can do this with Perl as
well, of course, but...).  I use Perl when I want to do something
complicated, or where I don't mind maintaining a separate script, but
use sed where I want to do something reasonably simple as a component
in another script.  There's More Than One Way To Do It...!

I found a sed FAQ at http://www.ptug.org/sed/sedfaq.html

All the best,

Norman


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Norman Gray                        http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/
Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK     norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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