Re: regex search and replace

[Gary Wessle]

Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
> following.
> 
> I have few lines in the format 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
>   ...
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham
> 
> I want to end up with 
> { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }
> 
> so my step by step approach is to remove the 
> "  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "
> 
> then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.
> 
> then to replace end of line with (", ")
> 
> and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task.
> 
> so, playing around with       incremental regex search and hoping some body
> will help me to learn something mean while.
> 
> thanks


I was able to reach 
xxx/yyy
.../...
ass/bbb

but when I replace end-of-line with (", ") it still leaves an
end-of-line after (", ").
that is it does not convert the lines to one lone line in the form
xxx/yyy, ...,"aaa/bbb"

the command I used was
replace-regex<ret>$<ret>", "<ret>

thanks