Hi,
seeing that
- your application is on bad terms with the perl-parser
- you do not have ruby
- your application might be very formatting sensitive , thus
- maybe also on bad terms with ruby
well, maybe you could use something simpler approach, like
Code:
$ cat file
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Sequence">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Sequence">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Sequence">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
$ sed -r "/<TRANSFORMATION.*TYPE =\"Sequence\"/,/<\/TRANSFORMATION>/ {/TRANSFORMFIELD/ s/(DATATYPE[[:blank:]]*=[[:blank:]]*\")[^\"]*/\1INTEGER/}" file
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Sequence">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="INTEGER" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Expression">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="bigint" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Sequence">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="INTEGER" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
<TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION ="" TYPE ="Sequence">
<TRANSFORMFIELD DATATYPE ="INTEGER" PRECISION ="19"/>
</TRANSFORMATION>
Maybe you do not need sed and you can use the regex with perl, not sure about that since I am not familiar with perl. I am also not sure if the '[[:blank:]]*' are needed or if some more are needed. Since you did not use [CODE][/CODE] tags to post your sample data there might be some formatting issues that went unnoticed.
If you need other tags changed you might have to exchange the keywords with variables.
