On Friday 11 of January 2013 13:24:12 Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > I am now on p9p and this does not work - at least with (... )* > > > using the \1 (used to be undocumented on plan9) may be sometimes easier > > Edit s/\+\+([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9])*/\1++/>
oughta be Edit s/\+\+([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9]*)/\1++/ the * moves to the left. also, probably oughta be Edit ,s/....../g to work on all lines, and change multiple matches in one go. -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Ray Smith