I've looked at the emacs wiki regex page and tried a couple of different ways to put single quotes around dates in a large data file, but I've no succeeded. I'd appreciate some help here.
The dates are in SQL INSERT INTO statements delineated with commas and of the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD. I've tried the regex search-and-replace using [:digit:] and [0-9] for each digit in the dates but that's not doing the job; I get the search string inserted rather than the original date surrounded by single quotes. I'm far from a regex expert despite having read the ORA regex book a while ago and the emacs wiki just now. I don't use them enough to have become fluent. Pointers appreciated, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
