UNIX sed (please help!!)

I have a sed problem. Is threre a way to transform rows like:

column Condition int

into:

column Condition
{
type = int;
description = "" +
"" +
"" +;
};

So need to transform 1 line to multiple lines. There should be \t -character in front of 'type' and 2 \t-characters in front of "" -rows.

Thank you

PS. If there is other UNIX program that makes it easier. Please tell and give the example.

will give you one line at a time.

Hello,

I think the awk is better for this purpose. Try this:

:
awk '
NF == 3 {
printf "%s %s\n", $1, $2
printf "{\n\ttype %s;\n", $3
printf "descritpiom = \"\" +\n"
printf "\t\t \"\" +\n"
printf "\t\t \"\" +;\n"
printf "};\n"
}
' <<EOF
column condition int
a b c
EOF

If you are on Solaris, put nawk instead of awk. This script transforms only the lines with exactly three fields separated by one or more white spaces. Ohter lines are silently ingnored. This is only to demonstrate the basic idea, you can add error messages for bad lines etc.

I have used here the 'here document', you will input your data from the file, of course. Should you have any problems write again.

Tested on Fedora Linux

Regards zlutovsky