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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re^2: Regular Expression delimiters
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Date: 18 Apr 89 00:31:59 GMT
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In article <2286@fireball.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> \(I also prefer a comma as the separator: sed 's,/,\\/,g'.)
> 
> I use minus: sed 's-/-\\/-g'

In cases like this, I use control characters (usually ^A or ^G).
I try to put a comment line above -- so people will notice:

	# THE NEXT LINE USES CONTROL-A CHARACTERS AS THE sed SEPARATOR:
	sed "s^A${foo}^A${bar}^Ag"

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