In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote:
>
> > Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover
> > most areas that could be problematic?
>
> Paul
>
> sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. I
> didn't look
> at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single backqotes when there's
> a plain double quote followed by a single character; do this globally." You
> want to test that it's not a period, but a letter.
You want 's/"\([A-Za-z]\)/``\1/g'.
<mike
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