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Diffstat (limited to 'extra/replace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/replace.c | 41 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/extra/replace.c b/extra/replace.c index 8e007e3a971..a44c33a4694 100644 --- a/extra/replace.c +++ b/extra/replace.c @@ -14,12 +14,16 @@ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ -/* Replace strings in textfile - 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. - The first occurents of a found string is matched. If there are more than - one possibly replace the longer from-string is replaced. +/* + 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. + Special characters in from string: \^ Match start of line. \$ Match end of line. @@ -167,7 +171,7 @@ 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; @@ -179,12 +183,13 @@ 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" @@ -237,7 +242,7 @@ POINTER_ARRAY *from_array,*to_array; (*argv)++; } if (*argc) - { /* Skipp "--" argument */ + { /* Skip "--" argument */ (*argc)--; (*argv)++; } @@ -949,9 +954,11 @@ static void free_buffer() } -/* Fill the buffer retaining the last n bytes at the beginning of the - newly filled buffer (for backward context). Returns the number of new - bytes read from disk. */ +/* + Fill the buffer retaining the last n bytes at the beginning of the + newly filled buffer (for backward context). Returns the number of new + bytes read from disk. +*/ static int fill_buffer_retaining(fd,n) File fd; |