Hi,
I wanted to search and relace a string of the form '_' (eg _4023) in a
large text file at work today. I'm not skilled in the art of constructing
Regular Expressions, so I went on the web and researched what I needed to
type.
Simple I thought; the expression I want is '_[0-9]{4}'. How
Hi Terry,
> Simple I thought; the expression I want is '_[0-9]{4}'. However, the
> only thing I could get to work, using Notepad++ and MS Visual Studio
> Find tools, was '_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'. Here at home I can get my
> original expression t o work in Kate, but not in Notepad++ running
> und
On Monday 21 Feb 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> History. Regular expressions were introduced to text processing by Ken
> Thompson who we recently mentioned. The syntax has evolved a bit by
> then and there are variations today. Your regexp could be written as
>
> _[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
>
Hi Peter
On 19/02/11 18:09, Peter Merchant wrote:
My ZYxel wireless USB stick has been working at 16% signal strength, and
my neighbour suggested that I try a Belkin one as he had a good signal
(albeit on W7).
I borrowed a Belkin F5D7050 which is quite an old one and I get a
marvelous 42% stren
On 21 February 2011 17:41, Terry Coles wrote:
> However, I still can't see why [0-9]{4} works in nano, but nothing I do will
> allow me to search for 4 digits preceded by an underscore. Is underscore a
> special char in some implementations?
not as far as I know, have you tried escaping the char
On Monday 21 Feb 2011, jr wrote:
> On 21 February 2011 17:41, Terry Coles wrote:
> > However, I still can't see why [0-9]{4} works in nano, but nothing I do
> > will allow me to search for 4 digits preceded by an underscore. Is
> > underscore a special char in some implementations?
>
> not as fa
Hi Terry,
> However, I still can't see why [0-9]{4} works in nano, but nothing I
> do will allow me to search for 4 digits preceded by an underscore. Is
> underscore a special char in some implementations?
No. Could it be that /[0-9]{4}/ worked because you were telling nano
you were searching
On Monday 21 Feb 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> No. Could it be that /[0-9]{4}/ worked because you were telling nano
> you were searching for a regexp with M-R, but when you tried /_[0-9]{4}/
> you forgot to do that? The prompt for the search string says whether
> it's expecting a regexp or not.
On 21/02/11 16:54, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to search and relace a string of the form '_' (eg _4023) in a
large text file at work today. I'm not skilled in the art of constructing
Regular Expressions, so I went on the web and researched what I needed to
type.
Simple I thought; the e
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:21:14 +, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said:
> In vi
>
> :1,$s/_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/found/g
In case it isn't clear, Vim is available on Windows as well. I know Vim
isn't everyone's cup of tea (for some inexplicable reason), but good to
know that there is a powerful editor
On 21 February 2011 21:38, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:21:14 +, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said:
>
>> In vi
>>
>> :1,$s/_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/found/g
>
> In case it isn't clear, Vim is available on Windows as well. I know Vim
> isn't everyone's cup of tea (for some inexplicable
On Monday, February 21, 2011 09:38:24 pm Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:21:14 +, l...@discoverlinux.co.uk said:
> > In vi
> >
> > :1,$s/_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/found/g
>
> In case it isn't clear, Vim is available on Windows as well. I know Vim
> isn't everyone's cup of tea (for s
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 17:42 +, Tim Allen wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> On 19/02/11 18:09, Peter Merchant wrote:
> > My ZYxel wireless USB stick has been working at 16% signal strength, and
> > my neighbour suggested that I try a Belkin one as he had a good signal
> > (albeit on W7).
> >
> > I borrowed
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