On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Brian Drumm wrote:
> I think this should be simple, but I must have been dancing all around
> the answer for the last couple of hours.
>
> I want to match any single occurrence of the character ">" at the
> beginning of a line, but want to ignore any occurences where there are
> multiple instances of the same character in sequence, like ">>>".
This should cover you
^>{1}[^>]
Breaking it down
=====================
^>{1} #any line that starts with a ">", repeated one time ...
[^>] #folled by a single occurance of any
#character which is not a ">"
Edge Case
=====================
The only thing this won't cover is a ">", on the final line of your file,
all by itself.
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Alan Storm
http://alanstorm.com/
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