Re: Replace 1 Char with 3Char's

Hi Dennis (and Joe),

But I'm not sure why the \r\n is not being converted to CRLF. Pretty sure
that will work on a unix system. Hmmm... a challenge, since I see that
doesn't work in either QSH or PASE.

I was actually surprised that you had used \r\n in one of your previous posts... because I had always thought that wouldn't work. So I figured you knew something I didn't...

Hmmm... If I were on a unix terminal or writing a unix script, I'd
just include a CTRL+M between the quotes, but that won't work here.

True. But, you could use backticks or $() to print the actual characters. Unfortunately, that'll mean using weak quotes, so you'll have to double-up the backslashes... really makes it ugly.

But it should work:

sed "s:\\\\\.br\\\\:$(print '\\\r\\\n'):g" in.hl7 > out.hl7

(I also replaced the % with : -- IMHO, % is ugly)

If someone doesn't provide you a better solution, I will post a CL program
(as an example) that can do this.

I was hoping you'd come up with a solution, since mine (above) is so ugly. :)