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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 at 14:26:25 -0500, Charles E. Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:06:40AM -0500, Steve Hall wrote:
>> Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
>>  > echo substitute(str, "\\(.\\{8}\\)[^\n]*\n", '\=3Dsubmatch(1)."\n"', =
'g')
>>=20
>> Thanks, all work for me! (I am now 100% convinced the only difficult
>> part of regexps is the escaping part... to quote or to double-quote,
>> that is the question.)
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>=20
> IMHO its best to avoid the question -- use single quotes instead of
> double-quotes.
>=20
>     echo substitute(str, '\(.\{8}\)[^\n]*\n', '\=3Dsubmatch(1).'\n'', 'g')

=2E..which doesn't work in this case, unfortunately, as substitute() needs
literal newlines in this case.  Not sure if it's a bug or not, though.

--=20
Piet Delport
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