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On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:29:49PM -0700, Joshua Gimer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
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> > I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g
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> Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g
> 


	So I just missed the "*"?  Didn't need to escape the [ or ] ?
	---I'll give it a try, thanks!

	gary

	PS: See, this is why I keep cheatsheets.  ;)

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