RE: Replace 1 Char with 3Char's

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This is the command I am running:
>
> qsh cmd('sed "s%[\.br\]%\r\n%g" /joe/temp/in.hl7 > /joe/temp/out.hl7')
>
> in.hl7 contains this -
>
> \.br\hello\.br\joe
>
> after running the command, out.hl7 contains this -
>
> rnrnrnrnrnhellornrnrnrnrnjoe

Yes.  You are telling sed to replace any backslash, any period, any b, or
any r with the sequence of \r\n.  It's doing that because you've defined a
class to be replaced, and the class contains all those characters.  ->
[\.br\] <-  This is not what you want.  You want a command more like this:
    sed s%[\][.]br[\]%\r\n%   (or the more obvious but less readable
s%\\\.br\\%\r\n%)

But I'm not sure why the \r\n is not being converted to CRLF. Pretty sure
that will work on a unix system.  Hmmm... a challenge, since I see that
doesn't work in either QSH or PASE.  Hmmm...  If I were on a unix terminal
or writing a unix script, I'd just include a CTRL+M between the quotes, but
that won't work here.

If someone doesn't provide you a better solution, I will post a CL program
(as an example) that can do this.

Dennis Lovelady
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