[SLUG] Quick question

[Stephen O'Neill]

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Al Girling wrote:
> Of course, you could use this to your advantage by writing your regex
> as:
> 
> sed -i 's/KoolTrax/&\™/g' *.php*
> 
> because the Ampersand captures the search expression and reuses it as
> part of the replacement.


Ahhh... *scribbles furiously*.


> Something else to note is your search expression isn't restricted to
> KoolTrax.  It seems unlikely in this instance, but if your search was
> for say, quick.  As the expression is currently, it would match quickly,
> quickest etc.  So you would need to use:
> 
> sed -i 's/\<KoolTrax\>/&\&#153;/g' *.php*

In that instance I would tend to use the word boundary character class -
is '\<word\>' exactly equivalent to '\bword\b'?

sed -i 's/\bKoolTrax\b/&\&#153;/g' *.php*

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