On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:13:49PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:36:10AM EST, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > sed -e 's/ +"/"/' oldfile > newfile 
> > 
> > It seems that changing the + to an * did the trick. Thanks.
> strange 
> 
> the above should work for 
> 
> test   " => test"
> 
> and shouldn't do anything for 
> 
> test" => test"
> 
> I tried some tests your right, but when I escaped out the + so it looks like 
> 
> sed -e '/s/ \+"/"/' 
> 
> will have to investigate later 

some more test with perl


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo 'test    "' | perl -pe  's/ \+"/"/'
test    "
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo 'test    "' | perl -pe  's/ +"/"/'
test"

so sed is doing something with the +

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