On 06/26/15 08:41, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Galen Seitz wrote: > >> untested >> >> search: ^,\([:alpha:].*\) >> replace: ,'\1 > > galen, > > Worth a try the next time, but the string to be quoted is the third in > each row (not at the beginning of the line) and the fourth string consists > of digits. I'll take that for a test drive, though.
If you don't give us the complete problem, you're unlikely to get a complete answer. Anyway, wrapping the strings you want to keep in parens is key. search: \(some stuff to keep\)foo\(more stuff to keep\) replace: \1bar\2 galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
