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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: The solution to the sed - multiple lines problem
Message-ID: <5768@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 03:32:59 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.5768
Posted: Thu Mar 12 03:32:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 04:41:28 EST
References: <574@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <574@hao.UCAR.EDU> bill@hao.UCAR.EDU (Bill Roberts) writes:
>The following sed script does the job:

>/one/!b
>N
>/two/!b
>N
>/three/!b
>s/\n/, /g 

Alas, this script fails to convert the input

	one
	one
	two
	three
	four

to

	one
	one, two, three
	four

While I think it is possible to handle this case, and its counterpart
`one\ntwo\none\ntwo\nthree', I am not going to work on it.
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