Re: Regular expression replace -- docs?

[Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:27:48AM +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:52:22PM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> > So, my immediate itch has been scratched.  But, if there are any
> > docs on Jed's regular expressions, I'd still like to read that.  Is
> > it possible that Jed's regular expressions are the same as
> > application X and I need to read about them there?  If so what is
> > the value of X?
> It looks to me like JED's idea of regexes is pretty much that of POSIX
> regexes (see man 7 regex if you're on unix).

Thanks.  That helped.  It was the part about using "\(" and "\)",
instead of "(" and ")" to group sub-expressions that I didn't get. 
Now, I've got it.

And, off-list Klaus Schmid pointed me at the following, which
explained it.

    http://www.s-lang.org/doc/pdf/slang.pdf

Thanks again to Frank and Klaus for help.

Dave


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