On 06/26/15 07:48, Rich Shepard wrote: > In a text file > 2200 lines have this form: > ,C... > that is. a comma followed by one or more characters. I want to replace that > with: > ,'C... > by adding the quote between the comma and first character in the string. > > This search string works ,[A-Za-z] (and ,[:alpha:] would also work), but > I've not found the syntax for the replacement string while reading the emacs > wiki or emacs regex tutorial. those cover only regex for searches. > > Trying the string ,'\1 fails miserably. A pointer on how to replace the > original string with a single quote between the comma and first char is > needed.
untested search: ^,\([:alpha:].*\) replace: ,'\1 galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
