[ale] VI vs perl RE question

Byron A Jeff byron at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Feb 2 08:06:51 EST 2006


On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:07:13AM -0500, Jim wrote:
> I use the help a lot, unfortunately I haven't been able to decipher the 
> complex search patterns.  I was hoping someone had already found the magic.

Simple actually: "[^"]*"

You can use escaped parenthesis if you want to capture the actual text for later
substitution or movement:
Simple actually: "\([^"]*\)"

Hope this helps,

BAJ



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