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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:56:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27fc6dd0023ba76f35ee6409157db321@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00810240911gee79793h966c6f325ce19f97@mail.gmail.com>

>If I try sth. like
>/( b(.)b)/a/\1\2/
>on
>bla blb 56
>I get
>bla blb\1\2 56
>which is not quite what I want... How then? (I'd like to get 'bla blblblb 56')

echo bla blb 56 | sed 's/( b(.)b)/&\1\2/'
bla blb blbl 56

similarly use `s' not `a' in sam.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 18:58 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-23 19:05 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24  8:08   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 12:23     ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24 16:11       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 16:54         ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24 17:02         ` John Stalker
2008-10-24 17:15           ` Rob Pike
2008-10-24 17:41           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 18:01             ` Russ Cox
2008-10-24 19:56               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 21:10                 ` Russ Cox
2008-10-24 21:40                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 21:47                     ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-24 22:04                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 22:38                         ` Gabriel Diaz Lopez de la Llave
2008-10-24 22:54                         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-24 22:59                           ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-24 23:52                         ` Tom Simons
2008-10-25 22:35                           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-25 23:02                             ` Steve Simon
2008-10-26  8:57                             ` John Stalker
2008-10-26 18:36                               ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27  4:55                             ` Russ Cox
2008-10-27  8:28                               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-27 10:18                               ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-27 13:13                                 ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 13:23                                   ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-27 19:42                                     ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 16:13                                   ` Brian L. Stuart
2008-11-30  8:29                             ` Yard Ape
2008-12-11 16:32                               ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-24 18:02             ` John Stalker
2008-10-24 17:10         ` Uriel
2008-10-24 19:56         ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2008-10-24 19:56           ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-26 21:23             ` Rob Pike
2008-10-24 11:27 Aharon Robbins
2008-10-27 19:23 Aharon Robbins
2008-10-27 20:15 ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 20:00 Eris Discordia
2008-10-28 14:51 ` Brian L. Stuart
2008-10-28 15:07   ` Eris Discordia
2008-10-27 21:08 Aharon Robbins
2008-10-28 14:53 ` Eris Discordia

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