help me with this sed expression

Malcolm Kay malcolm.kay at internode.on.net
Mon Jan 5 18:00:53 PST 2004


On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. I've worked an hour to figure out a serial of sed command to pro=
cess
> some text (without any luck, you kown I'm kinda newbie). I really
> appreciate your help.
>
> The original text file is in this form -- for each line:
> one Chinese word then one or two English word seperated by space.
>
> I wish to change to:
> 1) target file: one English word, then a space, then a Chinese word
> coorisponding to that English word.
> 2) if in the original file one Chinese word has more than one English w=
ord
> following in the same line, repeat the Chinese word to satisfy 1).
>
> Define: Chinese word =3D one or more continous bytes of data where each=
 byte
> is greater then 128 in value. (it is true in GB2312 Chinese charset whi=
ch
> this email is written in.)
> Define: English word =3D one or more continous bytes of [a-z].
>
> Say, for the original file:
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> =D2=BBa av
> =BF=C9=B8=E8=BF=C9=C6=FCaaav
> =CE=DE=BF=C9=B7=EE=B8=E6aacm
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> The target file should be:
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> a =D2=BB
> av =D2=BB
> aaav =BF=C9=B8=E8=BF=C9=C6=FC
> aacm =CE=DE=BF=C9=B7=EE=B8=E6
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> I tried to do things like s/\(.*\)\([a-z]*\)/\2 \1/ but the first \(.*\=
) is
> too greedy and included the rest [a-z].

Well the greedy part is easily fixed with:
  s/\([^a-z]*\)\([a-z]*\)/\2 \1/

But this will not work for those lines with 2 english words. The followin=
g should:
% sed -n -e 's/\([^a-z]*\)\([a-z]*\) .*/\2 \1/p' -e 's/\([^a-z]*\)[a-z]* =
\([a-z]*\)/\2 \1/p' original > target

Malcolm Kay



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