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   Joseph Rosevear to All   
   regex question   
   28 Sep 24 05:28:38   
   
   From: Mail@JoesLife.org   
      
   Hello,   
      
   This may be off topic, but let me try anyway.   
      
   I've been editing HTML.  I used to write my comments (incorrectly) like   
   this:   
      
         
      
   I asked my AI friend, Pi, for help and he said do this in vim:   
      
      :%s///g   
      
   I've used vi, so I tried that and vim.  I don't know if it matters.   
   Anyway, I got "No match found."   
      
   I could do other sorts of search and replaces, but not using the (.*) and   
   \1 combination.   
      
   This was frustrating, because Pi kept telling me it should work.  But it   
   didn't.  I'm wondering if I'm missing something?   
      
   Of course my goal is to simplify the editing of the above bad comment,   
   changing it to:   
      
         
      
   Help me if you can?   
      
   -Joe   
      
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