A Challenge to Sed Adepts

[Bevis Ip]

This is the first time I post flame in the past few years, but I just can't
resist this anymore.  There is no point in this exercise at all; I think
people should try to resist their urge to do such nonsense--well, at least
the poster admitted himself that it's a waste of time.  I wouldn't blame him
on wasting bandwidth because bandwidth has been wasted one way or another
anyway.

I appreciate intelligent questions and answers, but not nonsense that people
thought up like the one posted, awk is a better tool for this application,
for example.  Probably it's the format of the posting that upset me, I will
definitly not be flaming if it's been posted like "I have to do this in sed
because of whatsoever ...".  If the poster is trying to bring out a
discussion on sed through the posting, I think there's a better way to
present it.

Thank you for bearing with me.

bevis
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