Re: regex search and replace

[aartist]

May be you can use Macro. It could be faster to build , compared to
searching or building regexp.
Gary Wessle wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the
> following.
>
> I have few lines in the format
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar
>   ...
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham
>
> I want to end up with
> { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" }
>
> so my step by step approach is to remove the
> "  -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 "
>
> then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb.
>
> then to replace end of line with (", ")
>
> and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task.
>
> so, playing around with       incremental regex search and hoping some body
> will help me to learn something mean while.
> 
> thanks