Reply To: Regsub cmd to replace multiple occurances

[Jamin Gray]

One problem is that .* is greedy.  It will match the largest possible string that matches the pattern.

What about this?

Code:

regsub -all {({\.{4} )(})} $text {1 2} text

It captures a { follwed by a followed by 4 characters followed by a space.  then it captures the closing } and puts them together with a space between them.  

Result:

Code:

hcitcl>regsub -all {({\.{4} )(})} $text {1 2} text2
2
hcitcl>puts $text
DATE}{fs24 }{fs24 FIRST}{fs24 }{fs24 SEEN:}
hcitcl>puts $text2
DATE}{fs24  }{fs24 FIRST}{fs24  }{fs24 SEEN:}