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Re: search and replace
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Mike Ballard |
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Re: search and replace |
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Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:04:35 GMT |
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On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:
> I am trying with query replace to replace
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> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
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> with
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> \traverse
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> but it just replaces 0 occurrences. I don't understand why.
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> Do I have to do anything special? Is it because the string contains special
> characters
> or ... ?
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Sorry - I missed the first "\" and "[" - those mean something in regexps
so they need to be escaped as well...
Mike
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