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From: vsh@pixdoc.UUCP (Steve Harris)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Putting in newlines using sed
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 18:05:05 EST
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Some time ago I tried to do just what you describe.
I eventually gave up, but was working on the idea of:

	save line in hold buffer
loop:	
	yank hold buffer
	delete everything after first "foo ([^)]*)", and print
	yank hold buffer
	delete first "foo ([^)]*)"
	save result in hold buffer
	test somehow whether or not you're done
	if not done, goto loop

I think it can be done, I just never saw it through.

good luck, please post your code if you succeed
(it should be pretty ugly!! :-)

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