Emulates a subset of sed operations in RXML. (Sed is the Unix "Stream EDitor" program which edits a stream of text according to a set of instructions.)

Attributes

append

chars

lines

prepend

split=<linesplit>

suppress

Syntax :

<sed [suppress] [lines] [chars] [split=<linesplit>]
      [append] [prepend]>
 <e [rxml]>edit command</e>
 <raw>raw, unparsed data</raw>
 <rxml>data run in rxml parser before edited</rxml>
 <source variable|cookie=name [rxml]>
 <destination variable|cookie=name>
 </sed>

edit commands supported:
 <firstline>,<lastline><edit command>
    ^^ numeral (17) ^^
       or relative (+17, -17)
       or a search regexp (/regexp/)
       or multiple (17/regexp//regexp/+2)

 D                  - delete first line in space
 G                  - insert hold space
 H                  - append current space to hold space
 P                  - print current data
 a<string>          - insert
 c<string>          - change current space
 d                  - delete current space
 h                  - copy current space to hold space
 i<string>          - print string
 l                  - print current space
 p                  - print first line in data
 q                  - quit evaluating
 s/regexp/with/x    - replace
 y/chars/chars/     - replace chars

 where line is numeral, first line==1