Re: usage question

[Ian McNish]

> I'm guessing your problem is with the regex.  It looks like you're
> trying to use globs instead of regexes.  In order to match that string,
> you'll want something like this:
> 
> LocateLineMatching ".*hey there buddy:.*"
> CommentNLines "2"
> 
> In regex-speak, "." means "match any character" and "*" means "match
> zero or more of the previous character".  Basically, regex ".*" is
> eqivilant to glob "*".
> 
> If there's a chance that those lines might not be in the file at all,
> you'll want to wrap a "BeginGroupIfLineMatching '.*hey there buddy:.*'"
> "EndGroup" around those lines above.  "LocateLineMatching" will abort
> editing of the file if no match is found.
> 
> -James
> 


thx, works great now.