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  3. August 2009

Re: sed to translate

Peter Connell wrote:
For example, if my xml file named test1.xml contains the following -
<company>smith & brown not smith &amp; jones but F&P </company>

[...] when I run this from QShell sed 's/\&[^amp]/\&amp;/g' test1.xml

I get
<person>smith &amp;brown not smith &amp; jones but F&amp; </person>

I think your regular expression '\&[^amp]', means 'an ampersand, followed by one character that is not a, m or p.'. You can make a regular expression that means "not followed by this sequence of characters", but the only examples I've found either use more advanced regex dialects, or are really ugly[1].

It seems like the KISS principle applies here, in which case Joe's suggestion wins by a long shot.

[1] http://www.kleenecode.net/2008/10/10/regex-fu-not-followed-by/

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