sed break into lines (advanced)
2
I'm looking to use sed (or combining it with another grep command)to convert the following string
John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK
into
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
If that's not possible I'm willing to compromise for
John: Hi!,How are you,?
Dylan: Hey,OK
Many thanks
bash awk sed command-line grep
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
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2
I'm looking to use sed (or combining it with another grep command)to convert the following string
John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK
into
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
If that's not possible I'm willing to compromise for
John: Hi!,How are you,?
Dylan: Hey,OK
Many thanks
bash awk sed command-line grep
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
1
Please provide a minimalistic code demo of what you have tried.
– Daan
Nov 16 '18 at 8:33
I tried too many things pretty messed the entire thing until you guys came to the rescue
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 19:46
add a comment |
2
2
2
I'm looking to use sed (or combining it with another grep command)to convert the following string
John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK
into
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
If that's not possible I'm willing to compromise for
John: Hi!,How are you,?
Dylan: Hey,OK
Many thanks
bash awk sed command-line grep
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
I'm looking to use sed (or combining it with another grep command)to convert the following string
John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK
into
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
If that's not possible I'm willing to compromise for
John: Hi!,How are you,?
Dylan: Hey,OK
Many thanks
bash awk sed command-line grep
bash awk sed command-line grep
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
RavinderSingh13
27k41438
27k41438
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
asked Nov 16 '18 at 8:30
roizcorproizcorp
263
263
1
Please provide a minimalistic code demo of what you have tried.
– Daan
Nov 16 '18 at 8:33
I tried too many things pretty messed the entire thing until you guys came to the rescue
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 19:46
add a comment |
1
Please provide a minimalistic code demo of what you have tried.
– Daan
Nov 16 '18 at 8:33
I tried too many things pretty messed the entire thing until you guys came to the rescue
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 19:46
1
1
Please provide a minimalistic code demo of what you have tried.
– Daan
Nov 16 '18 at 8:33
Please provide a minimalistic code demo of what you have tried.
– Daan
Nov 16 '18 at 8:33
I tried too many things pretty messed the entire thing until you guys came to the rescue
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 19:46
I tried too many things pretty messed the entire thing until you guys came to the rescue
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 19:46
add a comment |
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sed can be used.
There is a great Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett online page, which I always open aside when writing sed script.
Give a try to this:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n '
:1
/./ {
/^[^:,][^:,]*: / {
h
s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/
x
s/,/n/
P
D
}
x
/./ {
x
H
x
s/n//g
x
s/.//g
x
b 1
}
}'
The output is:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
2
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft usedDto control the newline cycle.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
1
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
2
From my point of view both/./ {and the corresponding closing bracket}can be omitted.
– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'
– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
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3
In awk:
$ awk 'BEGIN{RS=","}{if($1~/:$/)p=$1;print ($1==p?"":p " ") $0}' file
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
There will be an extra empty line in the end. For some awks (at least GNU awk, mawk and Busybox awk) you can use RS="[,n]".
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
add a comment |
2
With trand awk:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/{name=$1; print; next}; {print name,$0}'
or shorter:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/?name=$1:$0=name " " $0'
Output:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
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1
In single awk, considering that your Input_file is same as shown samples then following may help you here.
awk -F',' '
{
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
if($i~/:/){
if($i ~ /: /){
print $i
split($i,array," ")
val=array[1]
}
else{
val=$i
}
}
else{
print val,$i
}
}
}' Input_file
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
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0
You may try to do something like this:
echo 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK' | sed -E "s|(w+:)|n1|g"
It will return:
John: Hi!,How are you,?,
Dylan: Hey,OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:42
Vladimir KovpakVladimir Kovpak
10.7k43646
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3
sed can be used.
There is a great Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett online page, which I always open aside when writing sed script.
Give a try to this:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n '
:1
/./ {
/^[^:,][^:,]*: / {
h
s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/
x
s/,/n/
P
D
}
x
/./ {
x
H
x
s/n//g
x
s/.//g
x
b 1
}
}'
The output is:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
2
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft usedDto control the newline cycle.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
1
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
2
From my point of view both/./ {and the corresponding closing bracket}can be omitted.
– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'
– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
add a comment |
3
sed can be used.
There is a great Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett online page, which I always open aside when writing sed script.
Give a try to this:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n '
:1
/./ {
/^[^:,][^:,]*: / {
h
s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/
x
s/,/n/
P
D
}
x
/./ {
x
H
x
s/n//g
x
s/.//g
x
b 1
}
}'
The output is:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
2
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft usedDto control the newline cycle.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
1
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
2
From my point of view both/./ {and the corresponding closing bracket}can be omitted.
– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'
– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
add a comment |
3
3
3
sed can be used.
There is a great Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett online page, which I always open aside when writing sed script.
Give a try to this:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n '
:1
/./ {
/^[^:,][^:,]*: / {
h
s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/
x
s/,/n/
P
D
}
x
/./ {
x
H
x
s/n//g
x
s/.//g
x
b 1
}
}'
The output is:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
sed can be used.
There is a great Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett online page, which I always open aside when writing sed script.
Give a try to this:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n '
:1
/./ {
/^[^:,][^:,]*: / {
h
s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/
x
s/,/n/
P
D
}
x
/./ {
x
H
x
s/n//g
x
s/.//g
x
b 1
}
}'
The output is:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:18
Jay jargotJay jargot
1,9191410
1,9191410
2
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft usedDto control the newline cycle.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
1
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
2
From my point of view both/./ {and the corresponding closing bracket}can be omitted.
– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'
– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
add a comment |
2
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft usedDto control the newline cycle.
– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
1
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
2
From my point of view both/./ {and the corresponding closing bracket}can be omitted.
– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'
– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
2
2
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft used
D to control the newline cycle.– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
Bravo! That is worth the UV just for the canny use of pattern and hold space and the lest oft used
D to control the newline cycle.– David C. Rankin
Nov 16 '18 at 10:31
1
1
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
I am BLOWN away! Thank you so much!
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 12:06
2
2
From my point of view both
/./ { and the corresponding closing bracket } can be omitted.– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
From my point of view both
/./ { and the corresponding closing bracket } can be omitted.– Cyrus
Nov 16 '18 at 19:43
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
@Cyrus This is true, this would give on one line:
printf 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OKn' | sed -n ':1 ; /^[^:,][^:,]*: / { h ; s/^([^:,][^,:]*: ).*$/1/ ; x ; s/,/n/ ; P ; D } ; H ; x ; s/n//g ; x ; s/.//g ; x ; b 1'– Jay jargot
Nov 19 '18 at 9:20
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3
In awk:
$ awk 'BEGIN{RS=","}{if($1~/:$/)p=$1;print ($1==p?"":p " ") $0}' file
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
There will be an extra empty line in the end. For some awks (at least GNU awk, mawk and Busybox awk) you can use RS="[,n]".
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
add a comment |
3
In awk:
$ awk 'BEGIN{RS=","}{if($1~/:$/)p=$1;print ($1==p?"":p " ") $0}' file
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
There will be an extra empty line in the end. For some awks (at least GNU awk, mawk and Busybox awk) you can use RS="[,n]".
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
add a comment |
3
3
3
In awk:
$ awk 'BEGIN{RS=","}{if($1~/:$/)p=$1;print ($1==p?"":p " ") $0}' file
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
There will be an extra empty line in the end. For some awks (at least GNU awk, mawk and Busybox awk) you can use RS="[,n]".
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
In awk:
$ awk 'BEGIN{RS=","}{if($1~/:$/)p=$1;print ($1==p?"":p " ") $0}' file
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
There will be an extra empty line in the end. For some awks (at least GNU awk, mawk and Busybox awk) you can use RS="[,n]".
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
edited Nov 16 '18 at 10:59
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
answered Nov 16 '18 at 9:15
James BrownJames Brown
18.5k31635
18.5k31635
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
add a comment |
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
I made the sed answer as correct because this didn't worked in my android in terms it made an extra line for "John" as part of "Dylan" line i.e. "John: Dylan: Hey"
– roizcorp
Nov 16 '18 at 13:35
add a comment |
2
With trand awk:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/{name=$1; print; next}; {print name,$0}'
or shorter:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/?name=$1:$0=name " " $0'
Output:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
add a comment |
2
With trand awk:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/{name=$1; print; next}; {print name,$0}'
or shorter:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/?name=$1:$0=name " " $0'
Output:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
add a comment |
2
2
2
With trand awk:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/{name=$1; print; next}; {print name,$0}'
or shorter:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/?name=$1:$0=name " " $0'
Output:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
With trand awk:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/{name=$1; print; next}; {print name,$0}'
or shorter:
tr ',' 'n' <file | awk '/:/?name=$1:$0=name " " $0'
Output:
John: Hi!
John: How are you
John: ?
Dylan: Hey
Dylan: OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
edited Nov 16 '18 at 11:37
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:58
CyrusCyrus
45.7k43878
45.7k43878
add a comment |
add a comment |
1
In single awk, considering that your Input_file is same as shown samples then following may help you here.
awk -F',' '
{
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
if($i~/:/){
if($i ~ /: /){
print $i
split($i,array," ")
val=array[1]
}
else{
val=$i
}
}
else{
print val,$i
}
}
}' Input_file
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
add a comment |
1
In single awk, considering that your Input_file is same as shown samples then following may help you here.
awk -F',' '
{
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
if($i~/:/){
if($i ~ /: /){
print $i
split($i,array," ")
val=array[1]
}
else{
val=$i
}
}
else{
print val,$i
}
}
}' Input_file
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
add a comment |
1
1
1
In single awk, considering that your Input_file is same as shown samples then following may help you here.
awk -F',' '
{
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
if($i~/:/){
if($i ~ /: /){
print $i
split($i,array," ")
val=array[1]
}
else{
val=$i
}
}
else{
print val,$i
}
}
}' Input_file
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
In single awk, considering that your Input_file is same as shown samples then following may help you here.
awk -F',' '
{
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
if($i~/:/){
if($i ~ /: /){
print $i
split($i,array," ")
val=array[1]
}
else{
val=$i
}
}
else{
print val,$i
}
}
}' Input_file
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
answered Nov 16 '18 at 10:13
RavinderSingh13RavinderSingh13
27k41438
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You may try to do something like this:
echo 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK' | sed -E "s|(w+:)|n1|g"
It will return:
John: Hi!,How are you,?,
Dylan: Hey,OK
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You may try to do something like this:
echo 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK' | sed -E "s|(w+:)|n1|g"
It will return:
John: Hi!,How are you,?,
Dylan: Hey,OK
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You may try to do something like this:
echo 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK' | sed -E "s|(w+:)|n1|g"
It will return:
John: Hi!,How are you,?,
Dylan: Hey,OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:42
Vladimir KovpakVladimir Kovpak
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You may try to do something like this:
echo 'John: Hi!,How are you,?,Dylan: Hey,OK' | sed -E "s|(w+:)|n1|g"
It will return:
John: Hi!,How are you,?,
Dylan: Hey,OK
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:42
Vladimir KovpakVladimir Kovpak
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edited Nov 16 '18 at 8:50
answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:42
Vladimir KovpakVladimir Kovpak
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answered Nov 16 '18 at 8:42
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Please provide a minimalistic code demo of what you have tried.
– Daan
Nov 16 '18 at 8:33
I tried too many things pretty messed the entire thing until you guys came to the rescue
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