try with py

Author: marinofelipe

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -91,9 +91,43 @@ jobs:
         new_version="${{ inputs.new_version }}"  # Or use ${{ env.NEW_VERSION }} if you set it as an env variable
 
         # Replace the version of spmgraph in the spmgraph config package template
-        sed -i.bak -E \
-          's|(url: "https://github.com/getyourguide/spmgraph.git",[[:space:]]*exact: ")[^"]*"|\1'"$new_version"'"|g' \
-          "$file"
+        python3 - <<PY
+        import io,sys,re
+        
+        with open(file_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            lines = f.readlines()
+
+        in_block = False
+        changed = False
+        out = []
+        url_marker = 'https://github.com/getyourguide/spmgraph.git'
+
+        for i, line in enumerate(lines):
+            out.append(line)
+            if url_marker in line:
+                in_block = True
+                continue
+            if in_block:
+                # end of block when we hit a line that is just ')' or '),'
+                if re.match(r'^\s*\),?\s*, line):
+                    in_block = False
+                    continue
+                m = re.search(r'(exact:\s*)"([^"]*)"', line)
+                if m:
+                    prefix = m.group(1)
+                    indent = line[:line.index(prefix)]
+                    new_line = indent + prefix + '"' + new_version + '"' + '\n'
+                    out[-1] = new_line
+                    changed = True
+                    in_block = False  # stop after replacing first exact in the block
+
+        if changed:
+            with open(file_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                f.writelines(out)
+            print("changed=true")
+        else:
+            print("changed=false")
+        PY
 
         # (Debug) cat the file
         cat "$file"