[CLUE-Tech] RE question

[Jeffery C. Cann]

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Jeff

On Monday 29 January 2001 22:43, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 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
>
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