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 at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at 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: >> roland hellström wrote: >>> 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 >>> 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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071015/8b43cea0/attachment-0004.html>