help with grep

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texte = I've run into a dilema and can't seem to get grep to work on a URL string. What I need to do is replace a single instance of "&" with a "?", but I cannot seem to get the correct syntax? [Text]Result=http://www.domain.com/menu.4321&var1=xxx[/Text] The following don't work? [Text]Result=[Grep search=&&replace=?][Result][/Grep][/Text] [Text]Result=[Grep search=\&=&replace=?][Result][/Grep][/Text] [Text]Result=[Grep search=(\&)=&replace=?][Result][/Grep][/Text] Any ideas? -- ------------------------------------------- Marc Thompson Software Engineer Office of Information Technology University of Utah 801.585.9264 marc.thompson@utah.edu ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
I've run into a dilema and can't seem to get grep to work on a URL string. What I need to do is replace a single instance of "&" with a "?", but I cannot seem to get the correct syntax? [text]Result=http://www.domain.com/menu.4321&var1=xxx[/Text] The following don't work? [text]Result=[Grep search=&&replace=?][Result][/Grep][/Text] [text]Result=[Grep search=\&=&replace=?][Result][/Grep][/Text] [text]Result=[Grep search=(\&)=&replace=?][Result][/Grep][/Text] Any ideas? -- ------------------------------------------- Marc Thompson Software Engineer Office of Information Technology University of Utah 801.585.9264 marc.thompson@utah.edu ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Marc Thompson

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