[PLUG] SED Help Needed -- UPDATE

[Galen Seitz]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Yes. Somewhat. And why not totally I don't -- yet -- understand. It does
> make sense that if characters are going to be grouped in the pattern part of
> the expression, then all characters need to be grouped. Including the single
> comma. Per John's suggestion I dropped the '.*' (intending multiple digits
> preceding the comma), yet not all instances of the pattern are substituted.
> The first lines of the input and output files show this.
> 
>    Input:
> 
> 73261,25||0||7/1/1947|D|N|N||H|C|32031|087|N19|19N|E20|20E|04||||MD|39.54,119.74|NV003|M|SPARKS
> AIR PARK|||||||2/2/1946|D|||125|||125,8.00,0,2,31,1,2.00||||||G|G|||3|MEL MEYER|RT 1 BOX 10 RENO
> NV||3|NV003|CLIDDELL|7/11/2003|HWOOD|7/21/2003|F|1/28/1946|||264442.24,4380360.93
> 
>    Output:
> 
> 73261|25||0||7/1/1947|D|N|N||H|C|32031|087|N19|19N|E20|20E|04||||MD|39.54|119.74|NV003|M|SPARKS
> AIR PARK|||||||2/2/1946|D|||125|||125|8.00|0,2|31|1,2.00||||||G|G|||3|MEL MEYER|RT 1 BOX 10 RENO
> NV||3|NV003|CLIDDELL|7/11/2003|HWOOD|7/21/2003|F|1/28/1946|||264442.24|4380360.93
> 
>    The first five instances of the pattern have the pipe substituted for the
> comma. Yet, in the middle of the second line (0,2 and 1,2.00) are not changed.
> In both cases the preceeding pattern is a single digit rather than 2 or more
> digits.

That's because the leading 0 in 0,2 and the leading 1 in 1,2 were part 
of the previous match.  Sorry, I'm not sure what the correct solution 
is in this case.

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Galen Seitz
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