Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On 10/11/2011 05:27 PM, Chris Davies wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote:
> > johnc@infotech:~$ cat lazydog.awk
> > /^The lazy dog/{
> >           if ( count<   1 ){
> >                   print "The lazy dog is my favorite."
> >                   count++
> >                   next
> >           } else {
> >                   next
> >           }
> > }
> > {
> >           print
> > }
> This works, but for those that are interested, and at the risk of making
> the script harder for some people to read, it can be simplified
<snip>
> awk '/^The lazy dog/{if(!k++){print"The lazy dog is my favourite."};next}1'

Oooh, I like that! (except there appears to be a typo in "favorite" ;-)  
(wait, didn't we already do the British-American English off-topic thread?))

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Kent