Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:13:08 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: David Banning <david+dated+1237311277.37b93e@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed error "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern" Message-ID: <20090313001308.GA94751@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090312173436.GA51898@skytracker.ca> References: <20090312173436.GA51898@skytracker.ca>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:34:36PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
>
> Here is the php line that gives the error;
>
> cat start_text | sed "s/--maintext--/$test/" > endtext
>
> give error;
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> sed: 1: "s/--maintext--/ Comment ...": unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
>
> where $test contains customer input from a website form
>
> There is something about the content of the text within the variable $test that is causing the error.
>
> Any pointers would be helpful.
I think your problem is that $ is an end of line as a regex. So sed is
choking on the fact that there's some text ("test") after the end of
line.
I can't really tell you how to fix it, although backslash escaping the
$ might be worth a try.
Regards,
--
Frank
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