* replacing strings
@ 2005-01-18 6:22 SENTHIL S
2005-01-18 7:30 ` Matthew Huggett
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From: SENTHIL S @ 2005-01-18 6:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
hi,
How to replace a string with the same string+something
..
eg: sum - [sum]
moon - [moon]
thanks
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2005-01-18 6:22 replacing strings SENTHIL S
@ 2005-01-18 7:30 ` Matthew Huggett
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From: Matthew Huggett @ 2005-01-18 7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:22:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: SENTHIL S <senfunn@yahoo.com>
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> hi,
> How to replace a string with the same string+something
> ..
>
> eg: sum - [sum]
> moon - [moon]
> thanks
Use parentheses in a regular expression to capture part of the match.
For example, for the simple cases you have give, you might try:
M-x replace-regexp
and give \(\w+\b\) for the regexp and [\1] for the replacement. The
\1 will give you whatever was captured by the () in the regexp.
Matthew
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