I can do it in sed...
Bengt Richter
bokr at oz.net
Thu Mar 17 22:04:37 EST 2005
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:37:11 -0500, Kotlin Sam <xavier_onasis at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who answered my two questions. I have only submitted
>questions twice, and on both occasions the solutions were excellent,
>and, I'm emarrassed to say, much simpler than I thought they would be.
>
>My next goal is to be able to help someone they way y'all have helped me.
>
Bravo. That's the spirit.
For even better appreciation of your future efforts, consider not top-posting ;-)
>Thanks again,
>Lance
>
>Kent Johnson wrote:
>> Kotlin Sam wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I frequently use something like s/^[A-Z]/~&/ to pre-pend a
>>> tilde or some other string to the beginning of the matched string. I
>>> know how to find the matched string, but I don't know how to change
>>> the beginning of it while still keeping the matched part.
>>
>>
>> Something like
>> re.sub(r'^([A-Z])', r'~\1', target)
>> should do it.
>>
>> Kent
>
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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