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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex replace for numbers
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:07:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw9ex8nk.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjdexa89.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>


On 2014-10-03, at 02:33, Robert Thorpe wrote:

> I'm not very good with Emacs regex, I need to search-and-replace on some numbers.
>
> How can I detect unnecessary zeros at the end of a number and chop them
> off?  E.g. turn 567.45000 to 567.45 without also turning 6700 to 67.

What about

M-%
\([0-9]+\)\.\([0-9]*?\)0+   RET
\1.\2    RET

?

> BR,
> Robert Thorpe

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03  0:33 Regex replace for numbers Robert Thorpe
2014-10-03  1:07 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-10-03  1:41   ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-03  2:45     ` Yuri Khan
2014-10-03  5:25 ` Nicolas Richard
     [not found] ` <mailman.10347.1412313926.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-03 11:43   ` Udyant Wig
2014-10-03 14:40     ` Nicolas Richard
2014-10-03 19:22       ` Robert Thorpe

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