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Re: Regexp Query/Replace Without Trashing Original Text
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From: |
Yair Friedman |
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Re: Regexp Query/Replace Without Trashing Original Text |
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Date: |
Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:56:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:37:48 -0700,
"Tennis Smith" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
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> How can I convert something like this
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> $GLOBAL_VAR
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> to this:
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> $global_array(GLOBAL_VAR)
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> ??
>
> Its easy to do a regexp query/replace for "\$[A-Z]", but I don't really want
> to change either the leading dollar sign ("$") or the trailing uppercase
> text (GLOBAL_VAR).
You want to replace "\$\([A-Z_]+\)" with "$global_array(\1)", but as
Kai suggested keyboard macros are more easy most of the time.