Re: Search and replace with a wild card

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s/NAME\d{3}\sDESC\d{3}\sDATE\d{3}/NAME    DESCRIPTION   DATE/g;
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Re^2: Search and replace with a wild card by dougmilbourne (Initiate) on Aug 24, 2004 at 17:12 UTC
Thanks that was the trick ... sorry about the confusing description I was trying to come up with example, but wasn't quite sure how to phrase it.	[reply]