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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:27:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ?
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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 (... )*
>=20
> > using the \1 (used to be undocumented on plan9) may be sometimes ea=
sier
> > Edit s/\+\+([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9])*/\1++/>

oughta be=20
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.

--=20
dexen deVries

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