On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:12:21 -0500, Anthony Chilco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at the regular expressions, it get stranger and > stranger. Someone else wanted to delete all lines starting > with %. Regular expressions should do it with: > > ^%*$ > > ^% is a % at the start of a paragraph > * is any number of characters
In normal regular expressions, * is any number _of the character it follows_, so M* would be zero or more consecutive M's, and %* would be zero or more %'s. > $ a paragraph break > > It doesn't work. If I try just ^%*, only the % gets deleted. > If * represents any number of characters, that should delete > everything. In any case I'll try the macro, thanks! I also went ahead and submitted this as an enhancement request. Why do *I* always find the bugs:-( Thanks all, -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
