Re: Unexpected replacement

gregh_oh schreef:

> Why is sed not stopping at the first occurence of EXPAND?
> I'm sure that the answer is simple, but I just can't see it.

.* is greedy.

sed "62s/\(:TREENODE TEXT=\"\)[^\"]*[^\"]*/\1%Choice%/"

Tested with GNU sed version 4.0.7, and the CMD.EXE of 
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195].

Don't know why a single [^\"]* isn't greedy. 
A single [A-Za-z]* did work OK.

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Grtz, Ruud


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