Re: [MLUG] Vi Regex problem

[Scott Hussey <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> > Try somethinglike s/,([A-Z])/,"$1/g
> >
> > The parantheses (sp?) are a grouping operator and tell vi
> > to assign whatever matches the pattern inside them to the next
> > group variable ($1, $2, $3, ...) The $1 of course then references
> > the first grouping from the matching part of your re.
> 
> 
> Do you know if this can also be done somehow in sed?  I thought there was
> a correspondence between vi and sed on this sort of thing but I couldn't
> get sed to do this.

Not sure, most of my regex experience comes from perl which uses
egrep like regex's. Not sure how sed's regex support differs.

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