Incremental replace functionality

[cirrrocco]

repost from Here.

Hey there, thanks for the response. I did not want to change an unique identifier in a bunch of files, but rather change the unique identifier in ONE file with the contents of a second file. so if i have ten instances of a unique identier say "****HHH***" in the first file, then lets suppose i have 10 different words each on a separate line. the first word from file 2 should replace the first instance of ****HHH*** in file 1 and the word on the second line should replace the second instance of ****HHH*** in file 1 and so forth.

ex:
COntents of file 1

ABCD = ABCD + ****HHH***
href=fox****HHH***.html
why does ****HHH*** fly high??

contents of second file

EFG
sucks
the bird

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so after operation the content of file 1 should be

ABCD = ABCD + EFG
href=foxsucks.html
why does the bird fly high??


I hope that made sense.

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so can someone find me a software that can do that, preferably one that a dumb user like me can run from my pc.

 

[cirrrocco]

oh and yeah I have tried that using html kit and also notepad++, but no luck.

 

[Ken g6]

Given file1.txt, file2.txt, the unique identifier above, and Strawberry Perl, the following at the command line should do it:

perl -e "$uniqueid='\*\*\*\*HHH\*\*\*';open(IN, 'file2.txt');while(<>){while(/$uniqueid/){$rep=<IN>;$rep=~s/[\r\n]//g;s/$uniqueid/$rep/;}print;}close IN;" file1.txt > result.txt

It even works with multiple instances of the unique identifier on the same line.

Edit: Fixed, Thx Mark

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Ken g6
Given file1.txt, file2.txt, the unique identifier above, and Strawberry Perl, the following at the command line should do it:

perl -e "$uniqueid='\*\*\*\*HHH\*\*\*';open(IN, 'file2.txt');while(<>) {while(/$uniqueid/){$rep=<IN>;$rep=~s/[\r\n]//g;s/$uniqueid/$rep/;}print;}close IN;" file1.txt > result.txt

It even works with multiple instances of the unique identifier on the same line.

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[cirrrocco]

wow guys , let me check that out. That looks sweet and that strawberry looks so delicious..

 

[cirrrocco]

and also i am on a mac now, but will check it on xp once I get home. one question I had though was that is result.txt the output or will i have to check file1.txt after the replace is done. sorry I dont know any programming other than a lil bit html. Thanks Ken, Mark.