On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote: > is there an easy way to change all reference designators > from <Letter> <Number> to <Letter> <?> so I can renumber?
sed -e 's/\(refdes=[A-Za-z].\)[0-9]*$/\1?/' old.sch >new.sch This creates new.sch from old.sch with all of the numeric suffixes on the refdeses changed to "?". It works on refdeses composed of one or more letters followed by zero or more digits. Any that don't match that pattern are left alone. Composing these isn't as hard as it looks. I learned to use "regular expressions" in an evening in 1970, and I bet they have saved me thousands of hours of work since. There are so many problems a simple, automated text transformation can make short work of. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
