[plug] sed or awk

[Mike Holland]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rob Dunne wrote:

> 
> Hi List,
>          can anyone tell me how to replace repeated occurances of
> that same pattern with a different replacement pattern?

Within a line? A file?  How about this (perl) approach:

s/1(.*?)1(.*?)1/1${1}2{$2}3/g

 
> ie 
> the first  "1" is replaced with "1"
> the second "1" is replaced with "2"
> the third  "1" is replaced with "3"
> 
> 

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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