At 12:30 PM -0400 3/18/08, BBEdit-Scripting List apparently wrote:
>Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:24:22 -0400
>From: Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii?
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>On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:17:45PM -0600, Ken G. Brown wrote:
>> Thx!
>> Tried it and it seemed to work. Even left existing ascii comments i had
>> added alone, letting them come through unchanged.
>> Took me a minute to figure out that all the changes were at the end of
>> the file.
>
>It should have substituted the characters in place.  I'm not sure why the
>changes would be at the end of the file...

To be a bit clearer, what I meant was that a complete copy of the file with all 
changes in place was appended to the original file.

Thx again.
Ken

> > Wonder what the equivalent of Perl chr($1) is for grep? I would think
> > there would be something.
>
>Converting a number to the corresponding ASCII character requires executing
>code, which can't be done with grep.
>
>Ronald


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