Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */
/* Replace strings in textfile
This program replaces strings in files or from stdin to stdout.
It accepts a list of from-string/to-string pairs and replaces
each occurrence of a from-string with the corresponding to-string.
The first occurrence of a found string is matched. If there is more
than one possibility for the string to replace, longer matches
are preferred before shorter matches.
This program replace strings in a file or on stdin/stdout.
It accepts a list of from-strings and to-strings and replaces all
occurents of from-strings to to-strings.
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@@ -167,7 +173,7 @@ register char **argv[];
break;
case'#':
DBUG_PUSH(++pos);
pos=(char*)" ";/* Skipp rest of arguments */
pos=(char*)" ";/* Skip rest of arguments */
break;
case'V':
version=1;
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@@ -179,12 +185,13 @@ register char **argv[];
if(version)
break;
puts("This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,\nand you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license\n");
puts("This program replace strings in a file or on stdin/stdout.\n"
"It accepts a list of from-strings and to-strings and replaces\n"
"all occurents of from-strings to to-strings.\n"
"The first occurents of a found string is matched. Longer matches\n"
"are prefered before shorter matches.\n\n"
"Special characters in from string:\n"
puts("This program replaces strings in files or from stdin to stdout.\n"
"It accepts a list of from-string/to-string pairs and replaces\n"
"each occurrence of a from-string with the corresponding to-string.\n"
"The first occurrence of a found string is matched. If there is\n"
"more than one possibility for the string to replace, longer\n"
"matches are preferred before shorter matches.\n\n"
"A from-string can contain these special characters:\n"
" \\^ Match start of line.\n"
" \\$ Match end of line.\n"
" \\b Match space-character, start of line or end of line.\n"
