[Tutor] Can re do this?

R. Alan Monroe amonroe at columbus.rr.com
Mon Aug 30 17:43:51 CEST 2004


Given a test file like:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy log
Another test line lazy dog

I want to match lines containing "the lazy dog" (line 2 would not
match). This I can do. I then want to change "lazy" to "xxx" (in line
1 but not line 2). This is where I'm getting stuck. I can't figure out
how to replace just a subset of "the lazy dog", which is itself, a
subset of the entire line.

Alan



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