negating in a regexp

[Peter Haworth]

Wasn't sure about the need for "+".  The dictionary entry for replaceText
says it replaces all instances of strings that match the regex.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:33 PM Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
wrote:

> *put* replaceText(fld 1, "[^0-9]+", space) into fld 2
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to filter a string to change everything but digits to spaces.
> >
> > It would seem that
> >
> >
> > replaceText("ab26 <tab>g9", "^\d",space)
> >
> >
> > should produce "  26   9", but for the live of me, I can't get ^ to work
> in
> > any context.
> >
> > I've even tried playing with the regex builder plugin, with no success.
> >
> > Am I missing something simple (again)?
> >
> > thanks
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> > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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