Re: Find duplicate numbers and replace
Re: Find duplicate numbers and replace
- Subject: Re: Find duplicate numbers and replace
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:50:42 -0400
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Script2 <email@hidden> wrote:
> I want to write a script that will find the second, third……occurrence of
> number (the number is always before [F]) and add "a" to second occurrence,
> "b" to third occurrence so on. Appreciate any suggestions or script
> examples. OS 10.3
This is a good candidate for Perl...
do shell script ("perl -i.bak -e 'undef $/; $_ = <>; while
(/(\\d+)\\[F\\]/g) { my $n = $1; my $a = \"a\"; substr($_, pos($_))
=~ s/$n\\[F\\]/$n . $a++ .\"[F]\"/ge;} print;' " & POSIX path of
myTextFile)
As written it modifies the text file in place, after making a backup
copy named by appending ".bak" to the original filename.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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