Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:56:59 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: jgimer@gmail.com Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regex question.... Message-ID: <4cfaf16b./uHAeLS0wfpxq8FB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinXsSHj4kLha9SgR4T0Rn7TvH1cKmZ-pYe%2BgC-k@mail.gmail.com> References: <20101205002602.GA27499@thought.org> <AANLkTinXsSHj4kLha9SgR4T0Rn7TvH1cKmZ-pYe%2BgC-k@mail.gmail.com>
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Joshua Gimer <jgimer@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > 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).
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