> As I said in my second post, neither the field (the problem with sed) > nor the string to be used as a replacement (no problem) is not known > in advance... > Apparently nobody reads but the 1st post... :)
why would it be hard to build up the regular expression
with a script?
something like this (untested, getting lazy)
# usage: buildre n replacement
fn buildre {
re = '^'
for(i in `{seq 1 $1})
re = $re ^ '([^ ][ ]*)'
re = $re ^ ([^ ]):\' ^ $2 ^ ':'
}
- erik
