Re: [LI] search and replace using Regular Expressions

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anand Raman forced the electrons to say:
> Hi friends
> To the end of each of these lines i want to append a </a> tag .. 
> 
> I tried doing this in vi editor and the following regular expression matches
> the whole line 
> /^[a-z<>A-Z0-9/:."'=~()?\-&%# ]*

Phew... What a regex...

The following regex also matches an entire line...

^.*$
> 
> However when i try to append the contents using the following 
> :%s/\(^[a-z<>A-Z0-9/:."'=~()?\-&%# ]*\)/\1<\/a>/gc
> it fails

I can't even look into this and see which is the offending character -
probably the backslash in there...

The way to achieve what you want is:

%s/$/<\/a>/gc

Binand

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