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Re: Regexp replacement question
From: |
Yuri Khan |
Subject: |
Re: Regexp replacement question |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:05:15 +0600 |
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:54 PM, MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> wrote:
> But what do I do if I want to replace leading zeroes with the same number of
> spaces. E.G. if my file contains:
>
[…]
> Ideas?
Idea #1: You can repeatedly replace ^\(_*\)0 with \1_ until saturation.
Idea #2, if you deem that inelegant: You can use the “replace with
expression” form.
C-M-%
Query replace regexp: ^\(0+\)
Query replace regexp ^\(0+\) with: \,(make-string (length \1) ?_)