Re: Unexpected replacement

> <menutree:TREENODE TEXT="Updates" EXPANDED="true" 
> TREENODESRC="xmlfiles/Menu.xml" IMAGEURL="images/folder.gif" 
> EXPANDEDIMAGEURL="images/folderopen.gif" FILENAME=""/>
> 
> Here is the snipit from the batch file that invokes sed:
> 
> SET /P Choice=Enter tree node text and press Enter:
> sed 62s/TREENODE\x20TEXT.*EXPAND/TREENODE\x20TEXT\x3D\x22"%
> Choice%"\x22\x20EXPAND/  <..\Incrementals.html > tmp.txt
> 
> My expectation is that user input text from the variable %Choice% 
> replaces "Updates". However, given an input of: New Node Name, here 
> is what ends up in tmp.txt:
> 
> <menutree:TREENODE TEXT="New Node Name" 
> EXPANDEDIMAGEURL="images/folderopen.gif" FILENAME=""/>
> 
> Why is sed not stopping at the first occurence of EXPAND?
> I'm sure that the answer is simple, but I just can't see it.

The "*" in sed is greedy, slurping up everything it can, including all
the way up to your EXPANDEDIMAGEURL.  Some versions of sed may have a
non-greedy operator.  However, it may be easiest to simply just
substitute up to "EXPANDED=" (rather than just up to "EXPANDED") and
then put the "=" back in the replacement.

-tim






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