Jonathan Kaye wrote: <snip> > Here is my second question, Pradeep, since you know regular expressions > quite well. I want to match a string from the start of the record to the > first full-stop (if any) in the record. That part is easy: > ^.*\. gives me what I want. Now the hard part: in the replace field, how > can I refer to the material matched by .* ? I would like to surround the > matched material with « at the beginning and » at the end. So, for > example, if a have a record like this: delete.me, I would like to replace > it with this: «delete»me > Is this possible? > Thanks again, > Jonathan > I found what I was looking for: $0 gives me the entire string matched. Now if I can do $0-1 where that equals the entire match minus the last character, then I would be a truly happy bunny. I'll keep looking but any ideas would be helpful. TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Please do not send me copies of list mail. I read the lists. Thanks!
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