From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T23:37:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with an "easy" regular expression substitution

On Dec 14, 1:33 pm, Iņaki Baz Castillo <i...@aliax.net> wrote:
> Hi, I'm getting crazy to get a theorically easy substitution:
>
> I've a file with a header:
>   X-Level: ***
> where the number of "*" is variable (from 0 up to 10).
>
> And I just want to replace "*" by "X", so get:
>   X-Level: XXX
>
> I don't get it since I don't know how to replace ANY number of "*" with the
> same number of "X" just in the header "X-Level".

Since I haven't seen the obvious answer yet...

text.tr('*','X')

-- Mark.