Re: Help sought for search & replace

On Jan 29, 3:16=A0pm, Ed Morton wrote:
> On 1/29/2008 2:27 PM, Bill Marcum wrote:
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> > On 2008-01-29, Anand Hariharan wrote:=

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> >>I would like to replace all occurrences of '/' by '\' -- but only
> >>those instances of '/' within that portion of a line between the first
> >>and second ':'.
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> >>Example:
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> >>C:/My/Source/Tree/Code.cpp:176: x =3D 2/3; // Some insightful comment
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> >>becomes
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> >>C:\My\Source\Tree\Code.cpp:176: x =3D 2/3; // Some insightful comment
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> >>(note that the three '/' following the second ':' are left untouched,
> >>but all those between the first and second':' are replaced with '\').
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> > awk -F: '{gsub(/\//,"\\",$2);print}'
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> awk 'BEGIN{FS=3DOFS=3D":"}gsub(/\//,"\\",$2)1'
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> or the ":"s would be replaced by " "s.
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Bill and Ed -

Thank you for your replies. I wish I'd thought outside the box enough
to appreciate that the ':' could be used as field separators.

- Anand