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Date:      Sun, 5 Dec 2010 08:44:03 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: regex question....
Message-ID:  <20101205084403.59ad70e7@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101205043257.GA3854@thought.org>
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:32:57 -0800
Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:49:45PM -0800, xSAPPYx wrote:

> > Also, the + operator means '1 or more' but needs escaped:
> > %s/[0-9]\+/foo/g
> 
> 
> 	Okay.  I thought that the + must be perl-only regex... .

It's from "Extended" REs  rather than perl specifically, it  works
with sed -E but not plain sed. Not sure about vi.



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