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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:27:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2206857.vaJMmS5UaY@coil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6ozu6+VPLQ-U5BH0RrOb0QBqA4PmmzJJf5rk=EXpdQHC-G8g@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 11 of January 2013 13:24:12 Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
> I am now on p9p and this does not work - at least with (... )*
> 
> > using the \1 (used to be undocumented on plan9) may be sometimes easier
> > Edit s/\+\+([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9])*/\1++/>

oughta be 
Edit s/\+\+([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9]*)/\1++/
the * moves to the left.


also, probably oughta be
Edit ,s/....../g

to work on all lines, and change multiple matches in one go.

-- 
dexen deVries

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Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-11 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11 11:19 Peter A. Cejchan
2013-01-11 11:44 ` Rudolf Sykora
2013-01-11 12:24   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-01-11 12:27     ` dexen deVries [this message]
2013-01-11 12:38       ` Bence Fábián
2013-01-11 14:24   ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-11 15:16     ` Rudolf Sykora
2013-01-11 11:46 ` Bence Fábián
2013-01-11 12:07   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-01-11 12:09 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-01-11 13:10   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-01-11 13:24     ` Nicolas Bercher

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