Reco writes: > Try it like this: > > sed -r 's/&([a-z])/\1/g' <your_perl_files>
It worked like a charm. I forgot about the parentheses and the \1 to limit the number of matches. My thanks to everyone who emailed me both on and off-list. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140610204246.f164922...@server1.shellworld.net