From: XY$ <kwicher@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T02:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with an "easy" regular expression substitution

On Dec 15, 2:42 pm, Mark Thomas <m...@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> 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.

Mark,
The request was to make the replacement only in the header, isn't it?
:)

K