Jim Holsenback escreveu:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a documentation migration project that involves translating a 
> group of html files into MediWiki markup. I'm using an application called 
> Pandoc to do the bulk of the translation, however there are some 
> application-centric tags that Pandoc refuses to translate. These app-centric 
> tags are essential for producing searchable indexices later on in the 
> process. My idea is to enclose these app-centric tags in html comments 
> notation, so that Pandoc will pass them (tags) on. As comments they remain 
> in the file but the person viewing the docs won't see them, I can later 
> programmatically access those tags and process them accordingly.
> 
>  The tool I want to use is "sed" .... however I'm rusty and have been 
> struggling a bit.
> 
>  This sample line example shows what I need to do:
> 
> <indexentry "This part is always different>
> 
>  needs to look like this:
> 
> <!-- <indexentry "This part is always different"> -->
> 
>  the wildcarding portion of my sed statement is where I'm having 
> difficulties.
> 
>  sed s\%'<indexentry*'%'<!-- <indexentry* -->'%g test.html
> 
>  gives me: <!-- <indexentry* --> "This part is always different">
> 
> Close but no cigar! It's not treating the "*" as a wildcard but passing it 
> on. I'm not escaping it properly am I? I've tried more than several 
> incantations but haven't had any luck. Someone's going to take one look at 
> this and solve it!

damn!  I don't have sed available right now and it's been quite some 
time since I've raged on perl regexes... :P

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