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: query replace regex Date: 22 Feb 2007 05:58:41 +1100 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172086841 29413 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2007 19:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 20:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJxKK-0005Xr-Vq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJxKK-0006OO-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news1.optus.net.au!optus!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: 58.178.32.177 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1172084315 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 1148 203.134.67.67:4030 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145780 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:41385 Archived-At: 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