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From: larry@geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: YA{sed}{question}
Message-ID: <294@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 03:48:11 EST
Article-I.D.: geowhiz.294
Posted: Wed Nov 20 03:48:11 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 00:18:43 EST
Reply-To: larry@geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Organization: UW Madison, Geology Dept.
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Seeing as everyone is brushing off their 'sed-wizard' hats, I've a question
too:

[input]
{garbage}#{complete garbage}#{more garbage}
....

[desired output]
{garbage}#{complete garbage}{more garbage}
....

What I want is to find a string delimited by starting and ending '#'s, and
strip off the last '#' (don't ask way, it had something to do with making
a grammer input human-readable).  Sed gives me the option of including
the address string in the substitution string, but not part of it.  Example:

s/#[^#]*#/&YUCK/g

should give me "#{complete garbage}#YUCK".  I've been doing this, then a

s/#YUCK//g

to strip off the trailing '#'.  Does anyone have a better solution?
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