As it turns out this was a CS class exercise in using sed and regex.

And excuse me, but you ARE using regular expressions in your example...

-Ross

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org centos-bounces@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Mon Oct 15 17:07:11 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Conversion of text in shell

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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roland hellström wrote:

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OK! I finally figured out the solution for all you people out the eager to hear it!!! it was infact very very similar to the last line I sent...

this is it

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sed 's/([^.]*).([^,]*),([^.]*).([^e]*)e(.*)/\1,\2 & $\3,\4 \cdot 10^{\5}$\\/'

omg I feel so h4xx0r figuring that out myself lol Thx for the help all :)

I am surprised you got it all in 1 regex, I was aiming more for:

sed 's/,/ & /;s/./,/;s/(.*)e(.*)/\1 \cdot 10^{\2}/'

whoops, I made a mistake:

sed 's/,/ & /;s/./,/g;s/(.*)e(.*)/\1 \cdot 10^{\2}$\\/'

You need the 'g' option in the second substitute to perform a global, and of course the proper cdot expression.

you don't need regex:

sed \ -e '/^ *$/d' \ -e 's/,/ & $/' \ -e 's/./,/g' \ -e 's/e/ \cdot 10^{/' -e s'/$/}$\\/' \ /path/to/input/file

now, the exercice is to read the input file directly with LaTeX using TeX macros instead of converting it.

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