michael wrote: > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > incantation... > > > given a file with many strings, include many of the form > <a href="some url or other">www</a> > > I wish each to be transformed to > <a href="some url or other">some url or other</a> > > ie so literal 'www' is replaced with the actual URL for each > occurance... > > any ideas? ta, M
If your input is XHTML (XML-compatible HTML), consider XSLT. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.)