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>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Gimer <jgimer@gmail.com> writes:

Joshua> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>> I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g

Joshua> Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g

Because that would turn a line of "fred" into "foofred". :)

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