At 12:39 07/11/97 +0000, you wrote:
>But you have also enclosed it in double quotes, in which \ is also
>recognized as an escape character, so you have to put
>
> "\\\\\\$[0-9]+"
>
>Personally, I'd leave off the double quotes. It's bad enough as it is...
Thanks. The bad news is, my example was simplified; the real thing has
embedded spaces. Never mind, the logic is perfectly comprehensible.
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