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- From: pat@gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
- Subject: strange replace-regexp behavior
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.133923.27974@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Summary: replace-regexp isn't working properly
- Keywords: replace regexp emacs epoch
- Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:39:23 GMT
- Lines: 33
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-
- I was trying to remove a leading column of '>' characters
- from some text and got some strange behavior from replace-regexp.
- I have text something like this:
-
- >In article 999, joe@blow said:
- >>blah blah blah
- >> blah blah blah
-
- I wanted to remove the first '>' in each line. Thus, I did:
-
- (replace-regexp "^>" "")
-
- Instead of removing just the first '>' in each line, it removed
- the whole sequence of '>' characters. It acted as though I
- has used "^>*" for the first argument. I ended up with:
-
- In article 999, joe@blow said:
- blah blah blah
- blah blah blah
-
- I'm using Epoch 4.2 on a SPARC 10 under SunOS 4.1.3.
-
- Any help would be appreciated.
-
- thanks,
- pat
-
- --
- "I have a cunning plan." -- Baldric
- patrick m. ryan
- nasa / goddard space flight center / oceans and ice branch / hughes stx
- pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov / zmpmr@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov
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