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From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
To: emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: regexp help
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:31:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C41022.1020302@gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C40F15.8060901@gatech.edu>


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Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> gokhalen@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I needed to replace lines matching the following pattern
>>
>> "hello      123456123456"
>>
>> with
>>
>> "hello      123456 123456"
>>
>> I used
>>
>> M-x replace-regexp RET hello      ...... RET \&                      /
>> * NOTE: a white space follows the \&  */
>>
>> To do this.
>>
>> I was wondering how I would do this with the \d construct. That is how
>> would I do this along the lines of
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think you want this:
> 
> M-x replace-regexp
> \([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\) RET
>     \1 \2 RET
> 
> There may be some way to avoid repeating the [0-9] but I couldn't figure
> that out.

Never mind.  I just forgot the escape.  The best way (I think) is:

\([0-9]\{6\}\)\([0-9]\{6\}\) RET \1 \2 RET

Matthew Flaschen


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-03  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-02 23:20 regexp help gokhalen
2007-02-03  3:37 ` HS
2007-02-03  4:27 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-02-03  4:31   ` Matthew Flaschen [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.3926.1170476834.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-03 20:31   ` M G Berberich
2007-02-03 22:18   ` Pascal Bourguignon
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2008-04-23 14:34 Neal Becker
     [not found] <mailman.10741.1208961303.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-23 15:59 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-04-23 16:04 ` tyler

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