in reply to using sed buffers

s2p helps you migrate from sed to perl

$ s2p "s!.*pts/\([0-9][0-9]*\).*!\1!" produces

... BOS:; # s!.*pts/\([0-9][0-9]*\).*!\1! { $s = s !.*pts/(\d\d*).*!${1}!s; $CondReg ||= $s; }

 ${1} is $1 is \1
 \(\) is ()
[0-9] is \d
* is *
. is .

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Re^2: using sed buffers
by floobit (Initiate) on May 03, 2012 at 12:58 UTC
    Brilliant. Thanks, all.