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Re: Parameter expansion: tr?
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- From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Parameter expansion: tr?
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:53:53 +0000
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On Apr 6, 3:13pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
} Subject: Parameter expansion: tr?
}
} I've seen how one can do a string substitution in a parameter expansion,
} but how can I do a tr, e.g. to swap the "." and "/" characters?
}
} Is there a simple way to do that, or do I need associative arrays?
The following requires 3.1.9 or later:
function ztr {
setopt extendedglob noshwordsplit
local chunk=''
while read -u0k 4096 chunk; do
print -Rn ${chunk//(#b)([$1])/${2[${1[(I)$match]}]}}
chunk=''
done
# "read -k" will exit nonzero on the last partial chunk, print it
(( $#chunk )) && print -Rn ${chunk//(#b)([$1])/${2[${1[(I)$match]}]}}
}
% ztr "abcde ." "NOPQR-/" <<EOF
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
EOF
ThR-quiPk-Orown-fox-jumpRQ-ovRr-thR-lNzy-Qog/
%
I think the "read -k" behavior on a partial chunk is a bug, but I seem to
recall some zsh-workers discussion to the effect that other shells also
behave that way. I may be thinking of some other "read" behavior, though.
Using ${1[(I)$match]} emulates the real `tr aaa xyz` == `tr a z` behavior.
If you give the above function only one argument, it acts like "tr -d".
"tr -s" and "tr -c" left as exercises for the reader.
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