Re: regexp help

["HS" <hugows@gmail.com>]

On 2 fev, 20:20, gokha...@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
>
> M-x replace-regexp RET hello     \(......\)\1 RET hello      \1    /*
> NOTE: a white space follows the \1    */
>
> Thanks,
>
>   -Nachiket.

There's no \d construct....
Can't you record a keyboard macro ? it might be easier!