Posted by mbstevens on 11/09/07 02:41

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.

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