Re: GREP joke

2006-10-03 Thread Russell Jones
Oh come on, explain! :) -Russ On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:34 PM, John Kershaw wrote: Find: amp; Replace: (You had to be there) -- W: 01274 900801 H: 01274 581519 M: 07944 755613 www.kershaw.org/ john skype:johnmkershaw AIM:johnkershaw MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: GREP joke

2006-10-03 Thread Jacob Haller
On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:34 PM, John Kershaw wrote: Find: amp; Replace: (You had to be there) Oh come on, explain! :) -Russ I have no real idea, but I thought that maybe this was preceded by a sequence of find/replaces that had the side effect of 'amp;amp;'s being scattered all over the

Re: GREP joke

2006-10-03 Thread Jason Davies
Find: amp; Replace: On 10/3/06 at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Jones) wrote: Oh come on, explain! :) Basically, the operation has no effect, because in the replacement pattern means the entire match. So it replaced amp; with amp;. nah, I think it arose when some nerds were acting

Re: GREP joke

2006-10-03 Thread Google Kreme
On 03 Oct 2006, at 13:34 , John Kershaw wrote: Find: amp; Replace: That's funny. That would be goo on a t-shirt, if you wrote it right. s/\amp;//g And, to be pedantic, it's a sed joke, not a grep joke. -- Oh and I could be a genius if I just put my mind to it And I, I could do anything if

Re: GREP joke

2006-10-03 Thread Patrick James
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:18:07 +0100, Google Kreme wrote (in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]): That's funny. That would be goo on a t-shirt, if you wrote it right. Find: goo Replace: good You don't want goo on your t-shirt. -- Patrick --

Re: GREP joke

2006-10-03 Thread Patrick James
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 21:53:54 +0100, Rich Siegel wrote (in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:34 PM, John Kershaw wrote: Find: amp; Replace: On 10/3/06 at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Jones) wrote: Oh come on, explain! :) Basically, the operation has no effect,