in reply to Edit html files in directory

Update...
ive had a go at the string matching: 
/[a-z]*[_[a-z]*]*()/

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Re^2: Edit html files in directory
by nemo (Sexton) on Aug 22, 2007 at 13:29 UTC
    Basically any name that has one or more underscores and parenthesis at the end
    Whoops I misread your initial post.This line will match a word with at least one underscore followed by any character with paranthesis at the end of the line. Sorry about that.
    /.+\_.*\(\)$/

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      This will also match all sorts of $things that it shouldn't __()
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