I want to sanitise some input and replace several characters with acceptable input, e.g. a Danish 'å' with 'aa'.
This is easily done using several statements, e.g. /æ/ae/, /å/aa/, /ø/oe/, but due to tool limitations, I want to be able to do this in a single regular expression.
I can catch all of the relevant cases (/[(æ)(ø)(å)(Æ)(Ø)(Å)]/) but I replacement does not work as I want it to (but probably completely as intended):
$ temp="RødgrØd med flæsk"
$ echo $temp
RødgrØd med flæsk
$ echo $temp | sed 's/[(æ)(ø)(å)(Æ)(Ø)(Å)]/(ae)(oe)(aa)(Ae)(Oe)(Aa)/g'
R(ae)(oe)(aa)(Ae)(Oe)(Aa)dgr(ae)(oe)(aa)(Ae)(Oe)(Aa)d med fl(ae)(oe)(aa)(Ae)(Oe)(Aa)sk
(first echo line is to show that it isn't an encoding issue)
Just as an aside, the tool issue is that I should like to also use the same regex in a Sublime Text 2 snippet.
Anyone able to discern what is wrong with my regex statement?
Thanks in advance.
Split it up into several sed statements, separated by ;:
sed 's/æ/ae/g;s/ø/oe/g;s/å/aa/g;s/Æ/Ae/g;s/Ø/Oe/g;s/Å/Aa/g'