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		henrikschroder on July 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The absolute bare minimum every programmer should ... In what language? That expression works fine for me when I test it?

ez77 on July 20, 2010 [–]

Say in ed or sed.

ralph on July 21, 2010 | [–]

    $ printf 'a[]b[c]d[ef][g[h]i\n' | sed 's/\[[^][]*]/-/g'
    a-b-d-[g-i
    $ ed
    a
    a[]b[c]d[ef][g[h]i
    .
    s/\[[^][]*]/-/g
    p
    a-b-d-[g-i
    q
    ?
    q
    $

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