From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 02:23:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B59F1065672 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 02:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D918FC08 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 02:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B829E80AA3; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:23:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:23:08 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Message-ID: <20101205022307.GB29153@thought.org> References: <20101205002602.GA27499@thought.org> <4cfaf16b./uHAeLS0wfpxq8FB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4cfaf16b./uHAeLS0wfpxq8FB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: jgimer@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regex question.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:23:09 -0000 On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:56:59PM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Joshua Gimer wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g > > Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g > > Too broad -- it will match the null string. (* means "zero or more > instances of" whatever preceded it.) > > Best RE I know for integers is > > [1-9][0-9]* > > (or replace the 1 with a 0 if the strings in question might have > leading zeros). YES, and Perry get an A+; the numbers do start with 1; no leading 0's. FWIW, the last time I Did this I was editina t text with almost 500 pages and didn't know that the "*" trick applied to the vi/vim world, so it saved me some typing. Thanks, gents. gary said before getting into the real work. HMMm, no, first need a cup of joe........ -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org