Hi,
I wanted to search and relace a string of the form '_nnnn' (eg _4023) in a
large text file at work today. I'm not skilled in the art of constructing
Regular Expressions, so I went on the web and researched what I needed to
type.
Simple I thought; the expression I want is '_[0-9]{4}'. However, the only
thing I could get to work, using Notepad++ and MS Visual Studio Find tools,
was '_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'. Here at home I can get my original expression to
work in Kate, but not in Notepad++ running under wine. So! I thought; this is
a Windows thing. But I can't get it to work in nano either, although '[0-9]
{4}' finds any 4 digits, but '_[0-9]{4}' won't find four digits with a
preceding underscore.
What's the obvious thing I'm missing?
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