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On Feb 21, 12:58 pm, Gary Wessle <phd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I need to replace
> 452452451 1.4445 1.4254
> with
> 452452451 1 1
>
> so I started by search regex to find if I can get the regex correct.
> ^\\d* \\d\\.\\d* \\d\\.\\d*$
> is reporting fail as soon as I type the second "\" in the line.
>
> how can I do this task?
>
> many thanks

There is no \d in emacs regexen.  Use [0-9] instead.