Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Apr 2006 18:19 UTC, submitted by Mark
General Development "In this article a simple usage of regular expressions is described. Its intention is to bring users to try the most powerful search and replace paradigm available and hopefully start using it. This however can not replace good tutorials available on the sites that are also mentioned in this article. The article is written reproducing actual steps I took to complete my task, to show the specifics and possible problems."
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RE[3]: regexp
by Morin on Sun 16th Apr 2006 14:02 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: regexp"
Morin
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2005-12-31

> Now you can either commit to a hefty and time-consuming
> bout of line-by-line cutting and pasting, or save the
> chunk of data into a textfile and run a one-line sed or
> awk expression over it.

I think you overlooked the term "average user" ;)

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