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command help

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:02:37 GMT

I have a file that looks like this:

BobMenefee

I want it to look like this:

Bob Menefee
_____________________________________________
My input file is called caps
I enter the following command:

sed s/'[A-Z]'/' [a-z]'/g caps

and I get
[a-z]ob [a-z]enefee

Any ideas how to do this ?

Re: command help

Martin Johnson — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:10:56 GMT

It is not a good idea to have spaces (or tabs) in you file names. Spaces/tabs have special meaning in the unix shells. You will have all sorts of problems trying to access the file.

HTH
Marty

Re: command help

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:15:19 GMT

file name is called 'caps'

the data in the file is 'BobMenefee'

I want to use sed to change it to Bob Menefee.

Re: command help

Tom Maloy — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:16:46 GMT

To put a blank before EVERY capital letter:

sed -e "s/$[A-Z]$/ &/g" caps

Tom

Re: command help

Martin Johnson — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:18:02 GMT

Sorry, I misinterpreted your post:

"I have a file that looks like this:

BobMenefee

I want it to look like this:

Bob Menefee "

Marty

Re: command help

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:24:09 GMT

Tom,

Thanks,

I've only been trying this for about 2 hours. It took you 2 seconds. I hate people like you.......just kidding.

Thanks a heck of a lot.

Bob

Re: command help

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:24:47 GMT

I suggest that you takes Tom's solution and then pipe it through another sed to get rid of the leading space.

sed -e 's/$[A-Z]$/ &/g' caps | sed -e 's/^ //'

Re: command help

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:26:34 GMT

Hi

I thibk you cannot subsitute for the whole set it slef bcoz the logic will fail when it seraches for what to put ?

may be you can try for each and then run the whole 26 times like this

sed s/'A'/a/g
sed s/'B'/b/g
sed s/'C'/c/g
and so on
and then run this on the cpas file

Manoj Srivastava

Re: command help

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:27:25 GMT

Yep me too , mis read the post

Manoj Srivastava

Re: command help

Tom Maloy — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:29:55 GMT

perl solution, do not add blanks if a blank is already there:

perl -n -e '{s/([^ ])([A-Z])/$1 $2/;print}' caps

Re: command help

Tom Maloy — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:33:50 GMT

forgot the global flag...

perl -n -e '{s/([^ ])([A-Z])/$1 $2/g;print}' caps

need more caffeine...

Re: command help

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:54:22 GMT

Only add a space before a capital that currently has a lower case letter in front:

# perl -pi -e 's/([a-z])([A-Z])/$1 $2/g' data_file