Saskia Van Der Elst wrote: > > I have trouble executing a search and replace through all files in a certain > directory. > > I want to replace " _</pat" by "</pat" > > Can I match a white-space? > > I have tried the following regex: > > s/ _\</pat/"</pat"/g
The \s pattern matches any of LF, FF, CR, NL and space, which is probably what you want. I doubt if you mean to include the double quotes in the new string, and Tom's right that your slash is ambiguous within the slash-delimited regex, so how about: s[\s*_\</pat][</pat]g HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]