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Subject: Re: Regexp Query/Replace Without Trashing Original Text
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Thanks.

-T
"Pascal Bourguignon" <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> wrote in message
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> "Tennis Smith" <tennis_smith@yahoo-remove-to-reply.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I convert something like this
> >
> > $GLOBAL_VAR
> >
> > to this:
> >
> > $global_array(GLOBAL_VAR)
> >
> > ??
> >
> > Its easy to do a regexp query/replace for "\$[A-Z]", but I don't really
want
> > to change either the leading dollar sign ("$") or the trailing uppercase
> > text (GLOBAL_VAR).
>
> M-x replace-regexp RET \$\([A-Z][A-Z_]*\) RET $global_array(\1) RET
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
>
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