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From: mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Regular Expression delimiters
Message-ID: <19083@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Apr 89 15:20:10 GMT
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Larry,

	I don't know if there is a "standard" trick for this, but I had to
write a shell script where this was going to be a problem. I got around this by
using "tr" to translate all the possible characters that could mess up sed into
characters that are ok to sed.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
			    Michael J. Chinni
	US Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
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