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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: s/A*./B/g editor bug?
Message-ID: <11329@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Oct 89 13:55:42 GMT
References: <3522@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3522@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (9704) writes:
-I've noticed the ED s///g command works incorrectly when given the command
-	s/b*a/c/g
-on the input line
-	aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
-Is this a confirmed bug in the RE matcher or the substitute code, and has
-it been resolved?  This sounds trivial, but it did cause real problems.

I believe it's a real bug.  The corresponding "sam" x/b*a/c/c/ works as
you expected the "ed" command to work.