String Search & Replace?

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Nov 4 12:40:11 PST 2004


You'll never BELIEVE what Joe Chasan said here...:
> 
> FWIW, if you get the entire file thing out of your heads, and the OP had
> access to sed and was on a *nix box, it certainly can be done with sed,
> just by sending the single string he wanted to send via user processing
> command.

Sure, and I almost recommended it.  It's resource-intensive though,
launching two extra processes and using their attendant resources for
something that can be done inline quite simply.

It's quick and dirty, but it's not terribly efficient.

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