Man, I am completely at a loss how to use a regex to search for whitespace. I *want* to search and replace some complex strings in multiple HTML files but I can't even successfully SEARCH -- forget about the replace!! Do regular expressions not actually work to find whitespace?!? I can't make them work, although the regex editor in Kate seems to do the job, when I copy even a simple regex that it produces to the command line for use with grep or egrep, they match exactly nothing. For example, a test file named "test.file" containing: some words some other words produces matches with: grep 'e w' test.file but NO matches with: grep 'e\sw' test.file egrep 'e\sw' test.file grep 'e[\s]w' test.file etc. Now, that's fine if the file I'm searching has ONLY one space, but the WHOLE purpose of regexes is to allow me to search flexibly. I want to search for different lengths of whitespace, etc., but since I can't even search for ONE whitespace character successfully, I'm unable to expand my regex. Any help? (Eventually I was going to build the regex to look for space/tab/newline characters.) -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
