[CLUE-Tech] RE question

[Kevin Cullis]

What I found out is that I was doing REs correctly, but that the display
showed the tab character just like it is in a RE (as an \t).

Kevin

Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> Jeff or anyone,
> 
> I'm having trouble with REs in sed.  I'd like to substitute 5 spaces
> with a tab and I'm having trouble with the RE.  This is what I've tried
> with the documentation I've read so far:
> 
> sed 's/   */\t/g' AMBASS.2
> 
> This is the result:
> 
> t1.tAn ambassador is a high
> 
> Where am I going wrong?  I understand that the \t is for horizontal
> tabs, but I've tried most everything to get it to work, but it ain't
> happin'.
> 
> Jeff, I'm curently typing up RE examples which you may want to use in
> your KISS session (which I've realized I can't make next month.  If you
> want the text file, let me know and we can pass it around for others to
> add to the file.
> 
> Kevin