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Re: sed 3.02 bug


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: sed 3.02 bug
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:15:22 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

Huy Le <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden +D ~/.procmail% echo '\?' | sed 's/\\\?/@/g'
> @@?@

You correctly used \\ to match \ in the input, but then you used \? to
match a literal ?.  Use a plain ? instead; \? is the special form that
makes the previous component optional.  Regexp syntax is described in
the man page for ed.


paul



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