Regex Find & Replace

Knute Johnson knute2010 at knutejohnson.com
Thu Mar 11 01:24:45 UTC 2010


On 3/10/2010 4:07 PM, NoOp wrote:
> Tried this on the OpenOffice.org users list, but no response yet. So,
> I'm hoping someone here is familiar with Regular Expression&  can help:
>
>
>> Sorting through a flat data file (GEDCOM genealogy database file) in
>> Writer (3.2 - linux) and I am attempting to find and replace the following:
>>
>> lowercase m preceded by a space and followed by uppercase A-Z.
>>
>> Example:
>>   (space)mAnderson
>> replace as
>>   (space)Anderson
>>
>> I found that I can easily _find_ using:
>>   m[A-Z]
>> but can't figure out how to replace the 'm' with a space and leave the
>> following A-Z letter in place.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how I accomplish this?
>
>

s/m([A-Z])/$1/

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Knute Johnson

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