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From: Maxwell Lol on 19 Jun 2010 07:16
Ryan Chan <ryanchan404(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> What are the recommended tool for string replacement in a file without
> using sed? Since I don't want to take care about regex/escape issues -
> since all my search/replace are just basic substitution.

vi, emacs, perl, awk, python, tcl, bash, basic, bison/flex

Or you can write a C program.

Or you can learn sed and regular expressions

or you can tell us what your real problem is.
From: Stuart Gall on 19 Jun 2010 07:53
On 2010-06-18 21:00:21 +0300, Ryan Chan <ryanchan404(a)gmail.com> said:

> Hi,
>
> What are the recommended tool for string replacement in a file without
> using sed? Since I don't want to take care about regex/escape issues -
> since all my search/replace are just basic substitution.

How about . . .
perl -n


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TIA
Stuart
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Those that can count and those that cant.

From: mjt on 19 Jun 2010 13:41
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:00:21 -0700 (PDT)
Ryan Chan <ryanchan404(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> What are the recommended tool for string replacement in a file without
> using sed? Since I don't want to take care about regex/escape issues -
> since all my search/replace are just basic substitution.

important question: are you looking for something
CLI-based or "editor-based" (such as a text editor)?

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