Question

I have a file which is created by a program. It contains html code and propitiatory calls to other software. In this file there are many variations of:

<td>$GETR("wp","1")$Yes$GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$</td>

so it could be:

<td>$GETR("dc","1")$Yes$GETR("","2")$NO$GETR("","3")$NA$NOTE()$</td>

or:

<td>$GETR("tc","1")$Yes$NOTE()$</td>

etc

I have created a script which properly formats these files but this bit I am stuck with.
I want the script to search through the file and if it finds more that one GETR between and then to put each GETR on a new line tabbed, so like:

<td>
    $GETR("wp","1")$Yes
    $GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$ 
</td>

Now if there is only one occurrence of GETR between:

<td> and </td>

I would like it to be changed to GETC, so:

<td>$GETR("tc","1")$Yes$NOTE()$</td>

would become:

<td>
    $GETC("tc","1")$Yes$NOTE()$
</td>

Any ideas how I can do this? I currently have a bash script which does some moving around which calls a python script to replace some formatting.

I am using Sun Solaris 5.10

Thanks

Answer 1

This is what you are desiring?

>>> x='<td>$GETR("wp","1")$Yes$GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$</td>'
>>> if x.count("$GETR")>1:
    x=x.replace("$GETR","\n\t$GETR").replace("</td>","\n</td>")


>>> print x
<td>
    $GETR("wp","1")$Yes
    $GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$
</td>
>>> x='<td>$GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$</td>'
>>> if x.count("$GETR")>1:
    x=x.replace("$GETR","\n\t$GETR").replace("</td>","\n</td>")


>>> print x
<td>$GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$</td>

In that case try this

if x.count("$GETR")>=1:x=x.replace("$GETR","\n\t$GETR").replace("</td>","\n</td>")
if x.count("$GETR") == 1: x=x.replace("$GETR","$GETC")


>>> x='<td>$GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$</td>'
>>> if x.count("$GETR")>=1:x=x.replace("$GETR","\n\t$GETR").replace("</td>","\n</td>")
>>> if x.count("$GETR") == 1: x=x.replace("$GETR","$GETC")
>>> print x
<td>
    $GETC("","2")$No$NOTE()$
</td>
>>> x='<td>$GETR("wp","1")$Yes$GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$</td>'
>>> if x.count("$GETR")>=1:x=x.replace("$GETR","\n\t$GETR").replace("</td>","\n</td>")
>>> if x.count("$GETR") == 1: x=x.replace("$GETR","$GETC")
>>> print x
<td>
    $GETR("wp","1")$Yes
    $GETR("","2")$No$NOTE()$
</td>
>>>