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Danilo Segan <danilo@kvota.net> writes:

> upro wrote:
>> This might be a stupid question:
>> I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
>> s/[a-z]''/$1"/g
>>
> What are you, a Perl guy? :-)
>
> Better try:
> s/\([a-z]\)''/\1"/g

Got me - I'm a Perl guy...

I apparently forgot to backslash the parentheses....

Thanks a lot, Michael

>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
>

-- 
Michael

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