On Thursday 17 September 2009 17:00:37 Newbie407 wrote: > Two items. First, when I say "variable text" I just mean that there can be > text of any length between the "LEC" and the carriage return.
Ok, but you don't say how, for example, the following should be considered: aaa LEC foo bar baz ulty abc def LEC yyy xxx ulty is that two instances of your pattern, or a single one, or it can never happen? > But I'm confused when you say that Grep can't do replacements. I'm using > this in the context of TextWrangler, and it's all about finding and > replacing text. Maybe my newness is standing out here. . . . I don't know what textwrangler is, but grep itself is a tool that only does pattern matching, ie print lines matching a pattern. No text replacement is possible with grep alone. -- D.
