"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> I think the problem is that you need to use \( \) and a \1 to correctly 
> extract
> that portion of the text.  I have success with:
>
> sed -e 's%<indexentry "\([^"]*\)">%<!-- <indexentry "\1"> -->%g'

Yes ... this works! I'd given up flogging at this and decided to go back to 
basics. I have a book that covers sed and awk so I did some reading and 
decided that I was at least getting a match of sorts with my first stab at 
it because of the results. The grouping with () and the refernce to \1 and 
\2 (pattern/hold buffer) was something covered in the book. Your live 
working example pulled it all togeather for me .... Thanks!

Jim

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