[Gllug] Help with sed

[Christopher Mocock]

Hi,

I'm stuck with a little problem using sed to do some text substitution 
and was hoping someone on here could help... I've got a bit of text in a 
file like this:

[Lang_1]
Lang=en

The "en" could be anything and I want to replace it with another string. 
The input file could have "Lang=..." elsewhere so I need to replace only 
the Lang= line that follows "[Lang_1]".

The problem seems to be with the new line character after [Lang_1]. For 
example, I'd hoped I could do something like this:

NEWLANG=pt
cat inputfile | sed "s/$\[Lang_1\]\nLang=*^/\[Lang_1\]\nLang=$NEWLANG/"

I haven't refined that but it's the general idea I was trying. It's the 
newlines that seem to be the problem.

Any ideas or advice?

Thanks,

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Chris
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