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X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:26:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Hannu E K Nevalainen <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Using sed - guru help wanted.
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
> [snip]
> HOW do I achieve that? ( \s = any ws, \S = any non ws )
>
> Obviously \(.*\) grabs/includes the last space. My brain has stoppped
> working, so right now I can't work around that :-I
Reversed character lists, e.g. '[^ ]', should work portably.
Igor
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