Re: GREP joke

[Patrick James]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 21:53:54 +0100, Rich Siegel wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):

>> On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:34 PM, John Kershaw wrote:
>>> Find: &amp;
>>> Replace: &
> 
> On 10/3/06 at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Jones) wrote:
> 
>> Oh come on, explain! :)
> 
> Basically, the operation has no effect, because "&" in the 
> replacement pattern means "the entire match". So it replaced 
> "&amp;" with "&amp;".

And of course &amp; is the entity for &.


-- 
Patrick



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