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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:49:44 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I have a text file which contains a couple of hundred
>> lines which look like this:
> 
>> >foo   EAL_FOO
> 
>> I need them to look like this:
> 
>> >  EAL_FOO="foo";
> 
> M-x query-replace-regexp RET
> ^\([a-z]+\) +EAL_\([A-Z]+\) RET
>   EAL_\2="\1"; RET
> 
> 
> -- Stefan

Stefan - that is really useful to know. Thanks. 

-Jeff