On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Rogan Creswick wrote: > I believe you want something like: > query = \([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\)
Ah, so. I did not have the groups in parentheses or set off by back slashes. > replace = '\1' As I wrote in response to Galen's message, I did not find the \1 on the wiki page. And, ... 143,260 lines later that certainly did the trick. Thank you both for the emacs regex lesson, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
