In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 11, Message: 30 On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:23:08 -0800 Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:56:59PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Joshua Gimer <jgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > > > I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g > > > Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g > > > > Too broad -- it will match the null string. (* means "zero or more > > instances of" whatever preceded it.) > > > > Best RE I know for integers is > > > > [1-9][0-9]* > > > > (or replace the 1 with a 0 if the strings in question might have > > leading zeros). > > > YES, and Perry get an A+; the numbers do start with 1; no > leading 0's.
Except 0 itself? :) You originally specified "ints from 0 to some N." I think you want either [0-9][0-9]* or just [0-9]+ (one or more digits) cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
