RE: Replace 1 Char with 3Char's

Wait a minute. Did Scott just use "mine" and "ugly" in the same
sentence? :)

Tom Armbruster

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:22 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: 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. :)