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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:24:31 +0100 Toby A Inkster
<tobyink (AT) goddamn (DOT) co.uk> broke off from drinking a cup of tea at
goddamn.co.uk to write:

Matt Probert wrote:

On the other hand, something similar could be written in a few lines
of Perl and posted here. Okay last to post the (quick and dirty) Perl
solution is a sissy! <g

Is two lines (excluding shebang) too many? I can do it in one if I'm
allowed to change the order of the arguments to STRING, REPLACEMENT,
FILESPEC.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$a = shift @ARGV;
system("sed -i 's/" . shift @ARGV . '/' . shift @ARGV . "/g' $a");

(Very dirty. Won't work for some STRINGs -- anything that has a special
meaning in a regexp.)

Will that work under Windows? Looks to me like it's calling an
external program - 'sed'.

Matt

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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:34:16 +1000 Mark Parnell
<webmaster (AT) clarkecomputers (DOT) com.au> broke off from drinking a cup of
tea at to write:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:15:12 GMT, Matt Probert
comments (AT) probertencyclopaedia (DOT) com> declared in
alt.html,alt.html.tags,alt.www.webmaster:

English language, it's richness and complete lack of logic!
^
And its wayward apostrophes! :-D

Touche!

I always think (well sometimes) that "its" should have an
apostrophe...I know, I know...

Matt

Matt Probert wrote:

Will that work under Windows? Looks to me like it's calling an
external program - 'sed'.

'sed' is available for Windows.

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"Matt Probert" <comments (AT) probertencyclopaedia (DOT) com> wrote

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:34:16 +1000 Mark Parnell
webmaster (AT) clarkecomputers (DOT) com.au> broke off from drinking a cup of
tea at to write:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:15:12 GMT, Matt Probert
comments (AT) probertencyclopaedia (DOT) com> declared in
alt.html,alt.html.tags,alt.www.webmaster:

English language, it's richness and complete lack of logic!
^
And its wayward apostrophes! :-D


Touche!

I always think (well sometimes) that "its" should have an
apostrophe...I know, I know...

Me too, because you were talking about the richness belonging to "it". So
it should be "it's" richness!

I had "it's" (in the possessive sense we are discussing here) on a website.
Some stuffy guy emailed to point it out, which I then changed. It happens!
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:18:29 +0100 "Charles Sweeney"
<me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> broke off from drinking a cup of tea at to
write:

Touche!

I always think (well sometimes) that "its" should have an
apostrophe...I know, I know...

Me too, because you were talking about the richness belonging to "it". So
it should be "it's" richness!

That's exactly my argument. I'm not a linguist, I don't trace the
roots of words to argue their correctness, I'm a writer.

Matt

Matt Probert wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:24:31 +0100 Toby A Inkster
tobyink (AT) goddamn (DOT) co.uk> broke off from drinking a cup of tea at
goddamn.co.uk to write:

Matt Probert wrote:


On the other hand, something similar could be written in a few lines
of Perl and posted here. Okay last to post the (quick and dirty) Perl
solution is a sissy! <g

Is two lines (excluding shebang) too many? I can do it in one if I'm
allowed to change the order of the arguments to STRING, REPLACEMENT,
FILESPEC.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$a = shift @ARGV;
system("sed -i 's/" . shift @ARGV . '/' . shift @ARGV . "/g' $a");

(Very dirty. Won't work for some STRINGs -- anything that has a special
meaning in a regexp.)

Will that work under Windows? Looks to me like it's calling an
external program - 'sed'.

sed is available for Windows :-D.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/, see
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Or you can install cygwin.

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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:18:29 +0100, Charles Sweeney
<me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> declared in
alt.html,alt.html.tags,alt.www.webmaster:

Me too, because you were talking about the richness belonging to "it". So
it should be "it's" richness!

What can I say? English is a stupid language. :-)

I had "it's" (in the possessive sense we are discussing here) on a website.
Some stuffy guy emailed to point it out, which I then changed. It happens!

I'd be the stuffy guy who'd notice it, and laugh about it with his
friends, although I wouldn't email you about it. *sigh* I'm such a nerd.

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