Hi, > First, there is a somewhat specific question about unspecified > substitutions. For all I know about these substitutions, you might > actually need XSLT to do them properly.
The substitution that I had in mind requires referring to characters based on their unicode properties like script, block... > I think you should absolutely use perl if it makes you happy. > Unix has a pretty interesting collection of various small tools (which > "do one thing and do it well" as you may hear), and shells facilitate > hooking up their outputs and inputs. Almost as if they were made to do > just that. I don't prescribe to using a tool for the sake of happiness. With my limited knoweldege I want to select one that is adequate to do the job. The subsitution that I wanted in many text files was deleting text from languages other than Malayalam,english and punctuation. This required a program that could match charcters based on their unicode character of block / script. I didn't find anything to suggest that sed could do that. May be, I didn't search properly. Did I miss a utility(including sed) that can do the kind of substitution I mentioned above? Thanks, ajith
