Bruce Van Allen wrote: > At 1:23 PM -0500 2002-10-07, Puneet Kishor wrote: > >> Bruce Van Allen wrote: >> >>> At 1:01 PM -0500 2002-10-07, Puneet Kishor wrote: >>> >>>> s/ +/ /g; >>>> >>>> seems to work just as well. Which begs the question... why even have >>>> \s? maybe because tmtowtdi?! >>>> >>> \s stands for "white space": [ \t\n\r\f]. >> >> >> yes, I know that ;-) >> >> which is why I am asking why do we even need \s since simply " " seems >> to work just as well. I mean, it is kinda hard to put a tab or a >> newline or a carriage return, etc., in a regexp... but a space is easy... > > > Hmmm? > > " " doesn't match \t, \r, \n, or \f. > > Or are you talking about using '\s' in the replacement expression, i.e., > B in "s/A/B/"? If so, '\s' is just 'backslash s'. > > 1;
ok. I get it now. Makes sense. So simple... and I was so needlessly obtuse. Thanks Bruce and Chris.
