From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-12-16T03:55:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with an "easy" regular expression substitution

Hi --

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Mark Thomas wrote:

>
>>> 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?
>> :)
>
> excuse me...
>
> header.tr('*','X')
>
> Better? :)

If you can be sure you won't get any false positives. The original
question was how to change:

   X-Level: ***

to

   X-Level: XXX

I don't know whether * occurs on other lines.


David

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