From: Shawn Anderson <shawn42@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T02:21:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with an "easy" regular expression substitution

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not sure if I understand what you're trying to do.. but it sounds like ***
is a number right?
so
text.tr('*','X')
becomes
text.tr('\d','X')

HTH
/Shawn

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:12 AM, XY$ <kwicher@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 15, 2:42 pm, Mark Thomas <m...@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 14, 1:33 pm, I=F1aki 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 "*" wi=
th
> 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
>
>

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