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Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 04/08/07 20:55
On 2007-04-08, Dave Kelly wrote:
> I am going to ask this here. Part belongs in this users group and
> part in another. I have a html file that consists of several hundred
> lines such as the group below. To store the data on the server, am I
> correct to say an array is created and for this example the array
> has a name of 'describe[]'?
>
><div style="text-align: center;"><h2>Personal Data</h2></div>
><p>Your Name: <input type=text name=describe[] size="40%"
> maxlength=256>
> Tel: <input type=text name=describe[] size="30%" maxlength=16>
> Date of Report: <input type=text name=describe[] size="10%"
> maxlength=16></p>
><p>Your Address: <input type=text name=describe[] size="60%"
> maxlength=1024>
> E-Mail: <input type=text name=describe[] size="30%"
> maxlength=1024></p>
></body>
>
> I need to fill the [] with a number. I had wanted to write a shell script
> to do that. I have googled for 2 days and have yet to discover how
> to increment a numerical variable in 'sed'.
Use awk, not sed, e.g.:
awk 'BEGIN { n = 1 }
{ while ( sub(/[[][]]/,"[" n "]" ) ) ++n ; print }
' FILENAME > NEWFILE
> Can someone help me or more importantly, tell me where the tutorial is
> that will
> answer these question.
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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