On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Bob Ammerman wrote:

*>>     Yeah. Why not give a hint that works (but not in C):
*>>
*>>     sed -e 's/111/1/g' -e 's/000/0/g'
*>
*>Sorry, that solution doesn't work.
*>
*>It will convert the string '11111' to '11', not '111'.

plp@plp:~ > echo "11111"|sed -e 's/111/1/g' -e 's/000/0/g'
111

Peter

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