[Robelle-l] Downshift all text but...

[John MacLerran]

Dear Robelle List,

I'm trying to find a way to downshift all text in a given file except: 
1) text within quotes (double or single), and 2) any text following a 
semi-colon.  Is this something that Qedit server or Qedit for Windows 
could do, or should I be looking at a shell script (unix or MPE ok).

Basically, the result should be something like this:

<before>
SCREEN AIQS643 ACTIVITIES FIND, CHANGE, DELETE
;
; This is a comment.
;
DEFINE ABC CHAR*10 = "HELLO"       ; Another Comment
DEFINE DEF  CHAR*10= 'GOOD BYE'  ; comment


< after the magic >
screen aiqs643 activities find, change, delete
;
; This is a comment.
;
define abc char*10 = "HELLO"      ; Another Comment
define def  char*10 = 'GOOD BYE'    ; comment

If you couldn't tell, we're migrating from PowerHouse from HP3000 to 
unix and would like to downshift everything except program literals and 
comments.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks!

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  John MacLerran
  IT Systems Analyst                       email:   macljohn at isu.edu
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