Another variant would be if only the first n occurrences were to be removed,
... | change /string/ // n | ...
Glenn can probably come up with other variants.:-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marty Zimelis
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: opposite of INSERT
>
> Richard,
> Lovely! If this is, indeed, what Glenn was looking for, I
> would suggest one enhancement: If the goal is to remove a
> string at a certain point in the record (inverse of "insert
> <n> after..." or "insert <n> before..."), I'd code it as
>
> ... | change <n.m> /string/ // | ...
>
> to avoid deleting other randomly-located occurrences of "string".
>
> Marty
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Subject: Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] opposite of INSERT
> >
> > PIPE ... | change /string/ // | ...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard Schuh
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn
> > Knickerbocker
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:18 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: opposite of INSERT
> > >
> > > OK, I'm coming up blank: Is there a SPECSless idiom for deleting
> > > specified columns from the middle (or end) of the record?
> THREEWAY
> > > is neat if I want the outside parts separately, but
> > > THREEWAY|GATHER|JOIN is way heftier than one SPECS.
> > >
> > > Hmmm, also, THREEWAY doesn't seem to behave as advertised:
> > >
> > > > Premature Termination: "threeway" terminates when it
> > > discovers that no
> > > > output stream is connected.
> > >
> > > Instead, it terminates as soon as it writes to a disconnected
> > > stream, so I had to connect a HOLE to output 1 to keep it going.
> > >
> > > ¬R
> > >
> >
>
