Re: [Gretl-users] bug? with string substitution

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> I think the following could be a base for automatic sanitizing of sprintf

better (preserves indentation and adds a comment) <sprintf.sed> s/^\([ \t]*\)sprintf \([A-Za-z_0-9]*\) \(.*\)/\1# was: sprintf \2 \3\n\1string \2 = sprintf(\3)\n/ </sprintf.sed> <bash> sed $1 -f sprintf.sed </bash> so for example <hansl>    sprintf ii "%d", i-2 </hansl> becomes <hansl>    # was: sprintf ii "%d", i-2    string ii = sprintf("%d", i-2) </nansl>