[ale] SED question

Tue Mar 19 13:53:02 EST 2002

Josh Freeman wrote:
> 
> Hello ALE'ers
> 
> I've got to batch process some HTML files, and I need to make
> substitutions of the form
> <h2> => foo
> </h2> => bar
> 
> The expression:
> 
> sed s/\<[hH]2\>/foo/g
> 
> takes care of the first one, but I have yet to get an expression to work
> for the second case, I would expect:
> 
> sed s/\<\\[hH]2\>/bar/g to return bar, but it returns <\h2> instead.
> 
> Any ideas. I assume that I am not escaping the '\' correctly, but I
> haven't an idea how to do it.

You're gonna kick yourself......

\\ escapes a backslash, but your pattern is </h2> (forward slash)

so s?\</[Hh]\>?bar?g should do it.....

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