How do I put an apostrophe in front of every date in a file?

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How do I put an apostrophe in front of every date in a file? The dates are of the form xx/xx/xxxx. Thanks.

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Re: How do I put an apostrophe in front of every date in a file? by zejames (Hermit) on Oct 21, 2004 at 11:22 UTC
Warning : this code is untested. `perl -i.bak -ne "s!(\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4})!'$1!g" myfile` [download] -- zejames	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do I put an apostrophe in front of every date in a file? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 21, 2004 at 11:36 UTC
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