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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:37:48 -0700, 
"Tennis Smith" <tennis_smith@yahoo-remove-to-reply.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> How can I convert something like this
>
> $GLOBAL_VAR
>
> to this:
>
> $global_array(GLOBAL_VAR)
>
> ??
>
> Its easy to do a regexp query/replace for "\$[A-Z]", but I don't really want
> to change either the leading dollar sign ("$") or the trailing uppercase
> text (GLOBAL_VAR).

You want to replace "\$\([A-Z_]+\)" with "$global_array(\1)", but as
Kai suggested keyboard macros are more easy most of the time.