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Posted by dorayme on 11/09/07 03:36
In article <13j7hria7sqb02d@corp.supernews.com>,
mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <27385$4733ba2d$40cba7bc$25175@NAXS.COM>,
> > "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
> >
> >> dorayme wrote:
> >>> In article <ulOYi.10178$CN4.8173@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> >>> "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>> news:tinc05-kb7.ln1@xword.teksavvy.com...
> >>>>> On 2007-11-09, leskaPaul wrote:
> >>>>>> <p>Here is some text. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> >>>>>> dog.
> >>>>> Where's the 's'?
> >>>> s/jumped/jumps/
> >>> I carefully looked at the OP's text and could not see
> >>> "s/jumped/jumps/" anywhere.
> >>>
> >> Seriously? It's a regular expression substitution "replace 'jumped' with
> >> 'jumps'"
> >
> > I always take what you say seriously. So I looked again. I still
> > found no answer to Chris's question in the OP's post. How complex
> > is that post? Mind you, I was very superficial, I just looked at
> > the visible part (I always have trouble seeing any other).
> >
> He was saying that 'jumps' substituted for 'jumped' would leave a
> 'quick brown fox jumped...' sentence with all the letters of the alphabet.
mb... I know what he was *saying*. And I was saying that there
was no such mechanism mentioned in the OP's message that answered
Chris's question. If the OP's message looked like:
http://netweaver.com.au/test/pics/withGrep.png
then the position would be very different and Chris would have
twigged to it and not asked the question in the first place.
<g>
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dorayme
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