RE: ash and String Manipulation

["Neil Holmes" <neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk>]

I have replaced much of the "toy" code now with a c program.

Thanks for the tip though.

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: jb1@btstream.com [mailto:jb1@btstream.com]
Sent: 07 January 2003 11:04
To: Neil Holmes
Cc: Linux 8086
Subject: RE: ash and String Manipulation


On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Neil Holmes wrote:

> Thanks for this. I am now working on alternative ways.
> 
> Looks like I am having to flex my not-so-advanced 'C' skills ! Its going
> well though.

I'm sure your example was just a "toy", but maybe you can simply use 
"sed" to substitute a spaces for each commas, e.g.:
  echo "advent,Text Adventure Game,advent.tar" | sed 's/,/ /g'

I've hardly used the command at all, but I know it's a great deal more
flexible (and cryptic!) than the example above implies. Unfortunately, the
man and info pages are insufficient, but I've collected some more useful
documentation. Let me know if you want that information.

ELKS doesn't seem to have "sed", but should (hint, hint). There's a
message in the archives at http://linmodems.org from Jeff Chua dated Thu,
2 Jan 2003 08:35:50 +0800 (SGT) in which he has identical text
substitutions using "sed" and "ex". The "vi" in my RedHat 7.0 is actually
"vim" and has a command-line switch, "-e", that's supposed to start it in 
"ex" mode. ELKS has "vi", but it doesn't recognize the "-e" switch; maybe 
it would be easier to add that function than to convert "sed" for ELKS.