From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex search and replace Date: 23 Oct 2006 07:45:36 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161556837 11495 80.91.229.2 (22 Oct 2006 22:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 00:40:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gblzc-0005x8-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gblzc-0007SL-CJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.79.7 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1161553599 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 4671 203.134.67.67:2842 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142558 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38180 Archived-At: Gary Wessle writes: > Hi > > I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the > following. > > I have few lines in the format > -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar > ... > -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham > > I want to end up with > { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" } > > so my step by step approach is to remove the > " -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 " > > then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb. > > then to replace end of line with (", ") > > and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task. > > so, playing around with incremental regex search and hoping some body > will help me to learn something mean while. > > thanks I was able to reach xxx/yyy .../... ass/bbb but when I replace end-of-line with (", ") it still leaves an end-of-line after (", "). that is it does not convert the lines to one lone line in the form xxx/yyy, ...,"aaa/bbb" the command I used was replace-regex$", " thanks